Fletcher Automation Research -- Computer Aided Design
Opal VLSI Layout Editor
- All angles database
- Extensive editing commands
- Edit-in-Place (Edit a nested cell from its parents)
- High performance display and plotting
- GDS II and DXF Database conversion
- Mebes Ebeam output
Opal is available on Windows Personal computers
For other computers which support Qt and OpenGL inquire below.
Jade VLSI Design Rule Checker
- All-angles database, highly optimized for octagonal layouts (90 and 45 degrees)
- Boolean operations -- AND, OR, NOT, XOR
- CLASSIFY polygons of one layer into a number of CLASSES based on their properties or their relationship to another layer.
- Single-layer dimensional checks -- WIDTH, GAP, NOTCH
- Two-layer dimensional checks -- INTERNAL, EXTERNAL,NEST,CONTAIN
- Extensive control of rule templates -- SQUARE, ROUND, ARC, with very fine control to avoid false errors
- Powerful Sizing operations -- GEOMETRIC, PRUNE or PHOTOGRAPHIC
- Error-Segment Operators -- OVERSIZE, UNDERSIZE, AND, OR
- Geometric compensation based on error segments
- Unlimited conjunction of rules
- DRC Run times linear with chip size
- Designed for Multi-processing
- Netlist extraction
- LVS for comparing any two databases (Netlist, Layout)
Jade is available on a wide range of computers, including Windows, Linux, Sun and HP workstations
For information and a free trial, please contact AlanFletcher@farcad.com
and then download from www.farcad.com (password required to install).