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Expert200

Layout EDITOR – Fully Functional, Limited to 1000 Layout Objects

Expert200 is a fully featured version of the hierarchical Expert layout editor limited ONLY by a layout design size of up to 1000 flattened layout objects. It is ideal for faculty members, students, and designers of small circuits. Expert200 is integrated with Gateway200 for a schematic driven layout design flow.

Expert200 is suitable for product evaluation, teaching, and training.

Key Features

• Productive layout environment for analog, mixed-signal, RF, and digital layouts with integrated DRC/LVS/LPE and parasitic extraction
• Offers powerful scripting capability and C++ API for design automation
• Expert200 Node Probing offers node highlighting for connectivity visualization. It highlights all layout objects electrically connected with the object you click

Productive Layout Environment

• Rapid pan and zoom with multiple windows through multi-level hierarchy – with bookmarks for tracking
• Seamless integration with Guardian DRC/LVS/LPE for real-time, online, or batch verification
• Real-time DRC rapidly validates layout “on the fly”
• Productive layout environment for analog, RF, microwave and digital circuits in CMOS, Bipolar, BiCMOS, SiGe, GaAs, InP and other unique processes
• Multi-window editing of full hierarchy with edit in place, grouping, search, and fast navigation with fewer mouse clicks
  
• Ideal for reticle creation and mask touch up
• Customizable hotkeys menu and command line for convenience of command invocation

Fully customizable hotkeys, macros, toolbars, layers, colors, and stipples can be directly imported from Virtuoso to give layout designers familiar and productive working environment.

Easy to Adopt and Use

• Customizable hotkeys, macros, and toolbars emulate may be set to the look and feel of Virtuoso environment for layout designers
• Process Design Kits (PDKs) from foundries enable quick start-up of new design environments
• Informative, easily accessible online help for all menus and icons
• Linux and Windows availability enables wide deployment on economy workstations
  
• Simple installation process does not require consultants to set up environment
• Cross-platform floating license system available
• Drives wide selection of printers and plotters with multi-page tiling based on paper size

Interoperable with Popular Design Flows

• Supports Dracula and Diva DRC/LVS/LPE rule decks
• Directly reads Calibre error reports for Result Viewing Environment (RVE)
• Technology file import from Virtuoso for layers, colors, stipples, customizable hotkeys, macros, and toolbars
• Imports legacy designs with GDSII and CIF data
• Available on Solaris, Linux, and Windows (NT/2000/XP) with consistent, familiar interface

Versatile editor creates all-angle polygons for analog, RF, and microwave circuit elements, including inductors and power devices in CMOS, Bipolar, BiCMOS, SiGe, GaAs, SiC, InP, TFT, and other process technologies.

Powerful Layout Editor Functionality

• Create parameterized cells (PCells) with JavaScript and LISA scripting graphical support
• Powerful C++ API can access all editing functions
• Check-in, check-out library manager enables designers to simultaneously work on the same project across a network
• Autoscaling and resize feature minimize process migration efforts

All-Angle Features

• Wires and devices at 90 degrees, 45 degrees, or any angle
• Any angle rulers for accurate measurement
• Supports derived layers
• Command line input for all commands
• Supports edit-in-place, exploded view, and flattened data
• Data safety option maintains running log for undo

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