open source VLSI layout tool release

Jun 13, 2006 0 Replies

It's a pleasure to anounce that Toped 0.8 has been released.



Toped is an open source cross-platform IC layout editor, based on openGL and wxWidgets. It defines a new layout command script and layout file format. Toped is fully driven by a build-in TELL interpreter. All operations are executed as a response to a TELL command. Further information can be found at

formatting link



Among the new features are:



- GDSII output



- crash recovery



- customizable menus



- log and crash files location and policy



- environmental variables are now recognized and expanded in all functions working with files



- Introduction of user defined structures (records) in TELL.



- TELL function parser



The release includes also Fedora RPM's and Windows installation



Enjoy Toped developers



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