Benefits

With the emergence of SOC and increasing design complexity, layout finishing cope with new challenges. Current designs generate larger databases that become increasingly difficult to process. SOC and MCM are made up of blocks from different providers that yield to database consistency problems. SOC designs with Hard IP blocks also increase the complexity of the tape-out as IP blocks must be instantiated during chip finishing. Time to manufacturing of critical designs is increased because existing Multi-Purpose layout finishing tools, such as Design Rules Checkers are no longer able to address the issues of today's largest designs.GTsuite is dedicated to Chip Finishing of the largest designs with minimum memory, disk requirements. GTsuite turns final processing and painful last minute adjustments to your GDSII database easy and safe.

 

GTcheck features

Warrants GDSII integrity
Multiple cell definition detection
Multiple top-cells detection
Missing cell detection
Bounding-box calculation
Layer/datatypes usage and instanciation summary
Cells hierarchy
Directly operates on zipped or compressed file

GTreplace turns painful last minute adjustments to your GDSII database easy and safe. With GTreplace, you can substitutes any cell and its hierarchy in your GDSII layout with any other external cell. So ECO changes, ROM code replacement, revision code replacement, and programmable customizations can be done in a single command.

The integrity and safety of your database is assured with GTreplace bounding box checking. GTreplace removes the referenced cell when no substitution cell is given. The replacement cell can be either the topcell of a GDSII database, or any subcell of any database, including the original one.

GTreplace features

Parameterized renaming style
Bounding box checking
Recursive call checking
Removes all unused cells from GDSII database
Directly operates on zipped or compressed file

GTlayer translates all objects defined in any layer/datatype to another one. This is mandatory for process migration either from one generation to the next, or from one foundry to another. GTlayer can remove all the objects in a specified layer/datatype. GTlayer helps you cleaning databases from unexpected data (recognition layers, non-manufacturable layers).

GTlayer features

Converts single or multiple layers
Removes useless layers
Directly operates on zipped or compressed files

GTpick-cell extracts any cell and all its hierarchy from your GDSII layout. Well-suited for database recovery, GTpick-cell is the ideal companion to GTreplace to address local corrections.

GTpick-cell features

Unit conversion
Recomputes coordinates in case of magnification
Directly operates on zipped or compressed files

GTgds2ps generates postscript files from GDSII databases for better documentation. Many powerful options controlling output size, hierarchy depth, pattern and colors, fonts make it easy to use.

GTgds2ps features

Optimized size of PS file
Fully parameterized pattern generation
Encapsulated PostScript generation
Directly operates on zipped or compressed files

GTgds2cif, GTcif2gds convert from GDSII to CIF format and reverse. CIF is a user readable format. It is helpful for understanding and debugging databases as well as for building your own generators (ROM code generator...).

GTgds2cif - GTcif2gds features

Datatypes management
Magnification factor conversion
Circles support
User defined units
Directly operates on zipped or compressed files

Supported platforms

SUN Sparc Stations, 32 and 64 bits, Solaris 2.5 and + HP HPUX 11.x x86 PC Linux RedHat 3 and + x86-64 PC Linux RedHat 3 and + ItaniumII Linux RedHat 3 and +