Best free gds/oasis ic layout viewer

[lisi22503]

Looking for comparison report for capacity and speed among nanoViewer Lite, StreamVista, Glade and klayout. In case someone has already done the homework, I'd appreciate results-sharing.

 

[supereye]

I am using nanoViewer Lite. It is even faster than commercial viewer Lavis, especially for large layout.

 

[okguy]

I prefer klayout because you can import the tech file from Cadence to get the same colors and shapes as Virtuoso, but on Windows, Mac and Linux... for free.
It because very convenient on Windows to double click on a GDS file and get the same view as in Cadence.
It also import Calibre DRC results ... easy to see on Windows.

 

[timof]

I vote for klayout.