As the cost of a complete mask set has dramatically increased and now represents a significant part of the overall project cost, it is critical for design teams, mask data preparation teams, and mask shops to implement a robust and repeatable Mask Data Preparation flow, which increases the productivity of the mask set creation and removes any risk of error.
GOTpop is a fast engine which performs boolean and geometric operations on one or two layout files described in GDSII and OASIS ®. Operations include:
- clipping,
- sizing,
- boolean operations: and, or, xor, sub, not,
- fracturing.
GOTpop has been optimized for distributed processing.
GOTpop benefits from the advanced GDSII & OASIS ® TOOL (GOT) data representation engine developed by XYALIS in order to manipulate the largest layout files in a minimum computing time with minimum disk and memory requirements.
GOTpop includes a distant access mechanism based on HTTP sockets for driving the tool in client/server mode.
GOTpop is easy to use with no deck nor configuration file.
Here is an example where we resize a file and use a XOR with a single line command:
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Input:
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Command: GOTpop -i hello.gds -l 1 -r 0.3 -i hello.gds -l 1 -r -0,3 –xor -o out.gds -p |
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Output:
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Benefits
- Fast and safe boolean operations
Features
- Boolean operations : and, or, xor, sub, not
- Clipping
- Sizing
- Easy to use, simple command line
- GDSII, OASIS ®, OASIS.MASK formats
- Massive parallel computation
