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Now shipping 3.3.12; Changes include
cross-sectional viewing and PCell multi-layer inductors. A utility to compute the number of turns/inductor style needed for a certain inductance is included. Note the cross-sectional viewer can "AND" layers to allow generation of the real diffusion after the implant is blocked by poly. Contact us for details.
Also in 3.3.12 is a new stream out pruning option to drastically reduce the size of bond pad only stream files. The prune option eliminates instances/cells from the stream file that are no longer needed after layer elimination. As an example a 600MB stream file was reduced to 12k when only bonding pad data was output. Another minor change in this version is the ability to use evaluated tcl expressions in reference library paths. This allows the reference library path to be a variable so it can be easily updated as needed without needing to modify the library's reference library path.

Now shipping with SMP on 64 bit opteron and sun ports. Please contact us if you have not received the upgrade via email. Please note current and future releases are now available via ftp. Please contact to setup your account.

Maybe you need on-the-road editing/review. Consider loading our software onto your laptop. Maybe you can't edit that 10 gigabyte gds file on the laptop, but you probably CAN edit that 2GB one. Load up linux on that laptop and give it a try. When you dock the laptop, it can serve the license to a big box on your network that can edit that 12 gigabyte gdsii file.