help: is there any easy way to conver GDS2 to text ?

[sunkey]

what i means is to conver it to the ascii format

or, to get the GDS2 structure info very easily~

in linux flatten~~ thx a lot

[S. Badel]

a recent post mentionned Anuvad
http://www.softjin.com/html/anuvad.htm

it's a library for GDS2 & OASIS reading/writing, but it includes as a "sample"
a tool to convert GDS2 to ASCII- you'll have to compile it however, but it's
not a big deal-

cheers,

stéphane

Post by sunkey
what i means is to conver it to the ascii format
or, to get the GDS2 structure info very easily~
in linux flatten~~ thx a lot

[sunkey]

thx a lot ~~ i am trying to download ...

and ps: i once got a tool called gds2txt,

but it report me GDS format error.. anyone

know this ? thx~

[Frank E. Gennari]

Post by sunkey
thx a lot ~~ i am trying to download ...
and ps: i once got a tool called gds2txt,
but it report me GDS format error.. anyone
know this ? thx~

I downloaded and compiled Anuvad and it seemed to work for me, though I
haven't tested it too much. gds2txt can be found here:
http://www.magma.ca/~psharris/gds2txt.zip

I haven't tried it though. If it gives you an error then your layout is
probably invalid. If you can send me the exact error and the GDSII layout
I might be able to help you find the problem.

Frank

[j***@yahoo.com]

There are several programs to convert gds2 to text. I use
StreamVista-Plot from www.semigy.com. It is a windows gdsii viewer
that can export to text. You can download the demo version and see if
it works for you. It does not convert gdsii directly to text--it just
gives the more meaning geometry info from a gdsii file. You can choose
between a couple of different output formats.

A couple of other pograms to convert gdsii to text are at:
http://www.neander.com/GdsDump.html
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~iltseng/Downloads/

I haven't used either of these.

Post by Frank E. Gennari

Post by sunkey
thx a lot ~~ i am trying to download ...
and ps: i once got a tool called gds2txt,
but it report me GDS format error.. anyone
know this ? thx~

I downloaded and compiled Anuvad and it seemed to work for me, though I
http://www.magma.ca/~psharris/gds2txt.zip
I haven't tried it though. If it gives you an error then your layout is
probably invalid. If you can send me the exact error and the GDSII layout
I might be able to help you find the problem.
Frank

[sunkey]

thx a lot ~~ but this is a program for Linux
or UNIX ?? it was reported error as:

***@mosix_05: /home/usr2/ 57 >GDS2TXT.EXE
GDS2TXT.EXE: GDS2TXT.EXE: cannot execute binary file

[PM]

Post by sunkey
thx a lot ~~ but this is a program for Linux
GDS2TXT.EXE: GDS2TXT.EXE: cannot execute binary file

The extension .EXE is to obvious, isn't it?
But for sure you can test it:

% file GDS2TXT.EXE
...

PM

[sunkey]

it's seems not free for download ??

[S. Badel]

sure, it is. you'll only need to register.

stéphane

Post by sunkey
it's seems not free for download ??

[r***@yahoo.com]

Stéphane

I downloaded this software last month but has not played around nor
created TCL interface yet.. Would you share your experience with this
API?

thanks,
ronald

Post by S. Badel
a recent post mentionned Anuvad
http://www.softjin.com/html/anuvad.htm
it's a library for GDS2 & OASIS reading/writing, but it includes as a "sample"
a tool to convert GDS2 to ASCII- you'll have to compile it however, but it's
not a big deal-
cheers,
stéphane

Post by sunkey
what i means is to conver it to the ascii format
or, to get the GDS2 structure info very easily~
in linux flatten~~ thx a lot

[S. Badel]

I'm just like you...
Thought about wrapping it for perl, on my side, but I didn't do it yet.
We're all with our good intentions but too busy, i'd say-

stéphane

Post by r***@yahoo.com
Stéphane
I downloaded this software last month but has not played around nor
created TCL interface yet.. Would you share your experience with this
API?
thanks,
ronald

Post by S. Badel
a recent post mentionned Anuvad
http://www.softjin.com/html/anuvad.htm
it's a library for GDS2 & OASIS reading/writing, but it includes as a "sample"
a tool to convert GDS2 to ASCII- you'll have to compile it however, but it's
not a big deal-
cheers,
stéphane

Post by sunkey
what i means is to conver it to the ascii format
or, to get the GDS2 structure info very easily~
in linux flatten~~ thx a lot

[Jim Cantellini]

Simon, Frank, Jmailguard, PM,

Why would one wish to convert GDSII to text?
Is the purpose to VERIFY the GDSII?
If so, wouldn't a GDSII viewer be better than TEXT?

What is the intended purpose of converting GDSII to text?

[k***@gmail.com]

If you can use a C/C++ compiler take a look at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gds2/