High Performance Layout Viewer and Editor for your Windows system

KLayout 0.27.9 (32-bit)

April, 25th 2022 - 194 MB - Freeware

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KLayout 0.29.1 (32-bit)
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Windows 8 / Windows 10
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Matthias Kofferlein / External Link
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klayout-0.27.9-win32-install.exe

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What's new in this version:

Features:
Fixed:
- Don't optimize away points on path edit
- DRC in deep mode highlights erroneous width violation with text
- Warning requested if LEF/DEF map file does not capture certain layers
- OASIS writer bug with certain irregular arrays
- DXF export: better handling of PCB zone fills
- LVS unexpectedly failing
- Problem with Qt binding
- Buddy tools + OASIS: invalid warning about unexpected strict mode
- pip install klayout doesn't seem to work on M1 MacBookPro
- Qt binding: crash due to Python allocation-while-deallocating
- Ctrl+F will always enter search box in Macro IDE now
- LEF/DEF reader options - could not clear suffix or set datatype to none
- netlist/LVS result browser - do not clip texts, provide texts as tool tips as well for inspection
- the library selected box listed technology-specific libraries even if no technology was selected
- Bugfixes and enhancements for the LEF/DEF reader Includes #1050, #1065 and #1047 plus a number of standard compatibility issues. Bugfixes and enhancements for the strm2xyz buddy tool's LEF/DEF reader implementations.

Enhanced:
- Include PCell update in Library#refresh
- Backspace to delete last point from polygon or path
- Split gates option for LVS (new keyword is "split_gates") - see documentation for details
- generate labels for PCB X2 net names
- PCell errors are now shown on a separate layer (formerly only if the PCell featured at least one layer-type parameter) This layer is available with the same style and configuration than the guiding shape layer.