Peardrop Design Systems
Glade (Gds, Lef And Def E ditor), is a freeware IC layout editor from Peardrop Design Systems capable of reading GDS2, OASIS, LEF and DEF plus a few other formats. It can load and display large design databases with its fast, lightweight object-oriented database - for example load a 677,000 net / 482,000 special net / 1,210,000 instance LEF/DEF design in 880Mb memory in 72 seconds on a 3GHz PC. Or load a 1.5Gb GDS2 file in 40 seconds. Glade uses the Qt cross-platform GUI toolkit for a modern GUI - not looking like something out of the 80's, and uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated graphics when available to give vastly superior display speeds compared to other layout editors, falling back to software rendering only if you do not have suitable hardware.
Glade is currently available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris, so it will run on your laptop or office servers.
Glade was featured at DATE 2013 - download the PDF from here .
Glade is extendable using Python scripting, allowing access to the database and gui via SWIG wrapping of C++ functions.
Download the Windows 32 bit build (tested on XP, Vista and Windows 7) version 4.3.42
Download the Windows 64 bit build (tested on Windows 7) version 4.3.42
Download the Linux 32 bit build for RHEL4 (tested on CentOs 4.7) version 4.3.41
Download the Linux 64 bit build for RHEL4 (tested on CentOs 4.7) version 4.3.41
Download the Linux 32 bit build for RHEL5 (tested on CentOs 5.7) version 4.3.41
Download the Linux 64 bit build for RHEL5 (tested on CentOs 5.7) version 4.3.41
Download the Linux 32 bit build (tested on Ubuntu 10.04) version 4.3.41
Download the Linux 64 bit build (tested on Ubuntu 10.04) version 4.3.41
Download the Solaris 32 bit build (tested on Solaris 2.8) version 4.3.30
Download the Mac OS X 64 bit build (tested on OS X 10.8.3 aka Mountain Lion) version 4.3.41
A Windows build of spice3f5 with a Qt gui is available in 32 bit or 64 bit .
A list of changes can be found here.
The Glade user forum can be found here.
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