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LayoutEditor for Mac

Design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication.

$69.00
In English
4.5
Based on 1 user rate

LayoutEditor overview

LayoutEditor is a program to design and edit layouts for MEMS/IC fabrication. As well as it is suitably for Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM), Chip-on-Board (COB), Low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC), printed circuit boards (PCB), GDS Editor thick film technology, thin film technology, …. It has sophisticated functions like all angles, font generator, macros, boolean operations, design rule checker, OPC, netlist driven layout and LVS. The Calma GDSII file format is used as the primary file format. Also OASIS (Open Artwork System Interchange Standard), DXF, CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form) and Gerber (RS-274X) are full supported. Alliance, Lasi file can be imported. The LayoutEditor is crossplatform compatible and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms.

The published price is that of a one-year subscription for LayoutEditor Basic. Additional edition and pricing information is available on the developer's site.

What’s new in version 20170530

Version 20170530:
New
  • DesignRuleChecker: add a new InaccessibilityCheck
  • LayoutScript:
    • unicode support
    • oax polygon operator support on Linux
    • python3 support on Linux
    • wrapping of operator + - == != for point and pointArray
    • extend example macros
  • add inner circle feature
  • cell compare with boolean xor operation
  • TextEditor:
    • supports autoindent
    • detect encoding of ruby files
    • display tcl result in TextEditor or message box
  • option not to store layer settings
File Formats
  • OpenAccess:
    • update to OpenAccess 22.50p064
    • trigger oa dump from file open in text editor
    • fix problem with oas ruby on some platforms
    • fix oa plugIn load with LayoutScript
  • ODB++: rotated rectangles
Macros
  • add new method to class cell: void cell::incircleSelect(int layer)
  • add new method to class drawingField: void drawingField::compareCellXor(string cell)
  • add new method to class drc:
    • void drc::minimumInaccessibilityOnLayer(int layer, int inaccessibility ,bool mergeBefore=false)
    • void drc::maximumInaccessibilityOnLayer(int layer, int inaccessibility,bool mergeBefore=false)
  • add new method to class doubleList:
    • constructor doubleList()
    • constructor doubleList(doubleList)
  • add new method to class intList:
    • constructor intList()
    • constructor intList(intList)
  • add new method to class point: constructor point(point)
  • add new method to class pointArray: constructor point(pointArray)
  • add new method to class rect: constructor rect(rect)
  • add new method to class process:
    • string process::startPythonScript(string filename,stringList args=stringList())
    • string process::startRubyScript(string filename,stringList args=stringList())
    • string process::startTclScript(string filename)
  • add new method to class setup:
    • static string setup::pythonSuffix
    • bool setup::static bool autoStoreLayerSetup
  • add new method to class strans: constructor strans(strans)
  • add new method to class string: constructor string(string)
  • add new method to class stringList: constructor stringList(stringList)
Fixed
  • memory leak on some drc checks
  • snap to point on path
  • display of mouse help in high resolution displays
  • correct update of existing cell name after program start
  • calculation of possible undo steps
  • display correct oa version
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LayoutEditor for Mac

$69.00
In English
Version 20170530
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4.5

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OhEssex
OhEssex
Feb 5 2009
20090202
0.0
Feb 5 2009
0.0
Version: 20090202
I'm hopefully going to get around to checking this out over the weekend, but I did want to pass along a huge thank you for your efforts porting this to the Mac!!
Stephen-Hadley
Stephen-Hadley
Jan 16 2014
4.5
Jan 16 2014
4.5
Version: null