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GDSII Reference Manual?

Zach

 My company owns a copy of the "GDSII Stream Reference Manual", Revision 6.0, dated in 1987.  This was made by Calma, which has since been purchased by Cadence.  We have a third party customer asking for a copy of the GDSII manual.   Has Cadence ever released their own version of this manual?  Thanks in advance.

  • Yes, it's an appendix of the Design Data Translators manual (ie the manual that covers stream in/out amongst other interfaces). It's available to any Cadence customer as part of the software.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  •  Hi Zach,

    see the following locations for a description of the GDS2-format:

    Steven M. Rubin, Computer AIDS for VLSI Design, Reading, Mass. [u.a.] : Addison-Wesley, 1987
    Appendix describing GDS2, see http://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/text/chapc.html

    J.R. Buchanan, The GDSII Stream Format : http://www.buchanan1.net/stream_description.shtml

    SPIE Handbook of Microlithography, Micromachining and Microfabrication, Vol. 1: Microlithography
    Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE Optical Engineering Pr., 1997
    Appendix 2.9 describing GDS2, see http://www.cnf.cornell.edu/cnf_spie9.html

    kind regards

    Stefan

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