Additional Information
High Performance Layout Viewer and Editor for your Windows system
| Latest Version | KLayout 0.29.0 (64-bit) |
| Requirements |
Windows 8 64/Windows 10 64 |
| Updated | April 02, 2024 |
| Author | Matthias Kofferlein |
| Category | Imaging and Digital Photo |
| License | Freeware |
| Language | English |
| Download | 178 |
Overview
KLayout support of GDS and OASIS file formats with automatic uncompression of zlib compatible formats. Easily load, visualize, and edit all your files. Although a comparatively simple piece of software, a layout viewer is not only just a tool for the chip design engineer. Today's design's complexity requires not only a simple "viewer". Rather, a viewer is a microscope through which the engineer looks at the design.
There are numerous viewers available, but sadly there are not many which satisfy a few basic requirements. Most of them are commercial and expensive. If there is a need for a simple, yet powerful viewer - here it is. Download KLayout 64 bit for Windows PC today!
Features and Highlights
There are numerous viewers available, but sadly there are not many which satisfy a few basic requirements. Most of them are commercial and expensive. If there is a need for a simple, yet powerful viewer - here it is. Download KLayout 64 bit for Windows PC today!
Features and Highlights
- Fast and accurate: fast loading and drawing
- Full support of properties
- Extensible and configurable to a large degree by custom Ruby or Python scripts
- Integrated development environment for Ruby and Python scripts
- Overlay capabilities: multiple layouts can be loaded into one window
- Very flexible layer configuration: many display options including a choice of fill pattern and different frame and fill colors. Animation, transparency, dimming/highlighting
- Layer grouping: the display properties of a group of layers can be changed at once
- Advanced layer display attributes: layers can be named, they can carry additional transformations, select certain hierarchy levels, or select shapes by their properties
- Copy and paste layer attributes to other panels
- Drawing order: select the layer that is shown on top
- Descend into a hierarchy: show a cell embedded in its context
- Flexible rulers: unlimited count, flexible display styles. Multiple templates can be configured, rules can be edited (move, delete, copy & paste)
- Shape and instance browsers
- Bookmarks, various zoom modes, mouse wheel support, screenshot function
- Undo/redo layer properties, for rulers
- Save: save the layout or parts (cells, layers) of it to a different format, with scaling or a different database unit.
- Image overlay capabilities: image files (i.e. jpg, png, gif) can be loaded and placed at an arbitrary position in the layout.
- Marker browser: certain error report files can be loaded and a browser tool is provided.
- Global transformation to flip/rotate image
- Smart drawing functions with many options: angle constraints, grid
- True, in-place editing in subcells, variant building function
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Smart partial editing function to stretch shapes, move edges or vertices
- Copy and paste shapes and whole cells, even to other layouts
- Many advanced editing functions: hierarchical operations, booleans, clip, corner rounding, sizing, alignment, layer operations
- Support for external libraries dynamically bound to a layout
- Parametrizable cells (PCells)
