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The LayoutEditor™

There is no especial feature which makes the LayoutEditor unique. There are many small things by what the LayoutEditor contrast from other programs and make it to a unique versatile tool to edit layouts for IC, MEMS, MCM, PCB, COB, MMIC, LTCC, ... Be impressed!

User Interface

A clever worked out user interface provides a outstanding usability on the one hand and a high productivity on the other hand. This virtual contrast is solved with an extensive use of shortkeys and mouse buttons/keys combination together with clear visibility of this combinations. The most important handling functions like zooming and scrolling are integrated in each feature and need not to be called separately.

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Performance

As designs can extent some Gb in file size, perfomance is an important factor. All significant features of the LayoutEditor are optimized to handel huge designs. So for example multi Gb GDSII files can be loaded in less than 25s/Gb, if your hard disk gives that output. Also the painting performance is excellent. Medium sized designs (up to some 100MB to GDS file size, exact size may depend on the design) can be painted with all details in real time. With bigger designs a lack of performance is automaticly detected and scarcely visible details are omitted. So even huge designs are painted with a acceptable performance.

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Schematic Driven Layout

Creating a design from a schematic is a widespread task where layout software is used. The LayoutEditor includes a schematic capture and can also read common schematic/netlist formats. The schematic is linked with the layout. This will support the design without restricting a free custom design. A netlist can be extracted for a build-in or external layout versus schematic (lvs).

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Macros

As a matter of course macros or scripts are possible with the LayoutEditor. It can be used for different applications. So the LayoutEditor has the possibility to record macros from the user interface like some office programs can do. This makes creating macros very simple and reduced the time to learn commands. Macros are written in the most common language C/C++ or in the most common scripting language python. Both types can be integrated in the menu structure. Via LayoutEditor python modul a complete adjustion of the graphical user interface and integration of other software tools is possible.

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Design Rule Checker

Validating the design rules is an important point in the design flow. The LayoutEditor has a integrated Design Rule Checker with many different rules checks. The errors are not only display in a list, but directly visualized within the design. As a matter of course all design rule checks work on all angle elements.

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Text Generation

Text labels are usually ignored during the tape out. A conversation to real polygons had to be done before. The LayoutEditor can do this with just one mouse click. No drawing of letters is required. Just use you favorite vector font. The LayoutEditor supports all common font formats like true type fonts (ttf files).

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3D View

A two dimensional designing can sometimes be quit abstract. The LayoutEditor allows a fast three dimensional visualization for your design. The graphical setup can be done in few seconds. The 3D model/3D view can be exported and used for example for a FEM-analyse.

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Barcodes and more

The LayoutEditor has many many more useful features like the barcode generator. Have a look into the manual or just try it out and be impressed!

Still anything missing? No problem! New ideas to improve the LayoutEditor are always welcome! Please contact: ideas@layouteditor.net

File Formats

The LayoutEditor does not need a own file format. The Calma GDSII file format is used as the primary file format. It works natively with many common formats:

It also imports LEF, DEF, Lasi and Alliance files.

Platforms

You work on different operating systems? No problem, the LayoutEditor too. It runs on:

Windows
Mac Os X
Linux
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