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GDS3D is a cross-platform 3D hardware accelerated viewer for chip layouts. Read standalone GDS files or use the Cadence plugin for easy integration with your Virtuoso environment.
Developed by PhDs of the IC-Design Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands
The GDS3D project is also hosted on Github: https://github.com/icdut24/GDS3D, but currently not actively maintained by us.
Forks can be found at https://github.com/trilomix/GDS3D and https://github.com/skuep/GDS3D
Features
- Interactive 3D flying through layout
- High performance, high FPS rendering of big layouts on consumer hardware
- Hardware accelerated on many platforms
- GDSII file input
- Enable / disable layers
- Browse through cell hierarchy
- Measurement ruler
- Explode geometry
- Wire tracing
- Cadence plugin
Project Samples
License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)Follow GDS3D
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Hi soerm, velner: Great work with this tool! Just a heads up: Our Email threat scanner detected a malware in the downloaded package: W32/Agent.XH.gen!Eldorado I scanned the content with two other tools and they didn't find anything. Probably is a false positive, but just in case, I let you know. Regards, Sergio
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Nice toy ! Very simple to use.
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nice tool !
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That is simply brilliant work you have done. It prove that the multi $ companies in this IC CAD are well at sleep. And that there are lots of work to do in this area. I look forward to see a community to back it up. Feature list: net trace, extraction, 3d connextion control.
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Thanks for Gds3d, it's the best!