What is the best layout editor?

• Jul 1, 2006

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Virtuoso is my choice.

 

• Jul 1, 2006

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Protool ... Orcad not bad .... Pads also good....

 

• Jul 4, 2006

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virtuoso and L-edit

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virtuoso and L-edit

 

• Jul 5, 2006

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Virtuoso and L-edit are the best.

For gabi71ro: did you have all blocks in Virtuoso with the same (0,0) origin?

 

• Jul 5, 2006

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Laker,it's the best one

 

• Jul 5, 2006

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I think Laker is better than virtuoso . when layout standcell , Laker is easy to deal whith .

 

• Jul 7, 2006

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i use virtuoso
any body use mentor's layout tools?

 

• Jul 7, 2006

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I used it. It's a good tool but maybe because I used mostly Virtuoso and L-edit..I vote for those 2

 

• Jul 8, 2006

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I think the virtuoso is better!

 

• Jul 11, 2006

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I use both Virtuoso & laker
i think laker is better~~~!!
because using laker layout is quick

 

• Jul 11, 2006

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Virtuoso is far better..with stabillity and gud no of options and skill interface..

 

• Jan 11, 2007

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virtuso / virtusoXL .. best

 

• Jan 11, 2007

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I've heard there are open source layout editors downloadable for free. Are they any good? Can someone share their experiences on this?

 

• Jan 13, 2007

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locos said:

I've heard there are open source layout editors downloadable for free. Are they any good? Can someone share their experiences on this?

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There are several out there., a couple on sourceforge. http://layout.sourceforge.net/links/index.html lists most of them. LayoutEditor has nice features and good for MEMS work but can't cope with large designs. Toped has limited functionality. Glade is good (listed as a broken link but isn't) and runs on windows, linux and solaris. Electric is showing its age.

 

• Jan 16, 2007

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virtuso!

 

• Jan 16, 2007

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Believe me.. Virtuoso is the best...


Warm regards
Swathi

 

• Jan 17, 2007

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well as i see Editors can be any.. its the LVS etc. part(later stage) which is important....and cedense is gud in that..
but if u have worked on magic, default visuals of cadences will look v.bad....

 

• Jan 18, 2007

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Cadence Virtuoso is still the best for me...

 

• Jan 18, 2007

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I also think laker is good for u.

 

• Apr 23, 2008

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if you see from the price, I think it is virtuoso.

does anyone know hom much the latest version of virtuoso is?