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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
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License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)Follow GDS3D
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