July 2011

New Program: LAYMPW (Multi-Project Wafer)
Layout busses supported now!
More flexible licensing
New versions: LAYFRAME 2.4, LAYED 5.7/6.2, LAYVER 5.3, SPE 4.3/LAYCIR4.5

March 2010

LAYFRAME is a new program for the efficient management of the user's design data as well as for convenient work with all LAYTOOLS programs (LAYED, LAYCIR, LAYVER,...) and simulation tools from other companies (SIMetrix, Smash, ADS, MSIM).
New versions: LAYED 5.6/6.0, LAYVER 5.2, SPE 4.3/LAYCIR4.4

September 2009

New versions: LAYED 5.5, LAYVER 5.2, SPE 4.3
64-bit executables: LAYVIEW, LAYVER

December 2008

New versions: LAYED 5.5, LAYVER 5.1, SPE 4.3

December 2007

New versions: LAYED 5.4, LAYVER 5.1, SPE 4.1

December 2006

New versions: LAYED 5.3, LAYVER 5.0

January 2006

New versions: LAYED 5.2, SPE 4.0

June 2005

New versions: LAYED 5.1, LAYVER 4.8, LAYPAR 3.2

May 2004

New versions: LAYED 5.0, LAYVER 4.7, LAYPAR 3.1, SPE 3.3
Uniform appearance at all platforms (MS Windows, LINUX, SUN)

Current versions:

LAYED 5.7/6.2
LAYVER 5.3
LAYPLOT 2.1
LAYPAR 3.2
SPE 4.3/LAYCIR 4.5
Simulation interface for ADS, SMASH, SIMetrix, MSIM

News in LAYED (examples only) – for detailed information click here

July 2011 (5.7/6.2)

• bus support

• new procedure-interface functions

• new and enhanced commands for object creation/modification, display control and user interface adaption

• new alternative Layer Control Box

  March 2010 (5.6/6.0)

• LAYED 6.0 for use in LAYFRAME

• save and reload of several categories of settings/options

• vertical grid value can be defined different from the horizontal

• new procedure-interface functions

• new and enhanceded commands for object creation/modification, display control and user interface adaption

  December 2008 (5.5)

• virtual layers

• pGroup extensions

• new and changed commands and subcommands

  December 2007 (5.4)

• improved LAYVER interface

• extended procedure interface

• dynamic object-related mouse snap

  December 2006 (5.3)

• Conditional selection

• OASIS import

• More flexible GDS2 and CIF conversion

  January 2006 (5.2)

• Relational selection

• New hierarchy overview

• Improved LAYVER Interface

June 2005 (5.1)

• New DRC function: electrical connectivity

• Cluster technique for faster display of large layouts

• A lot of new layout and display functions

News in LAYVER – for detailed information click here

March 2010 (5.2)

• LAYVER 5.2 may be used in LAYFRAME

• new commands NCP(Net compare) and LCP(Layer compare)

• generation of net-lists in the format of the ADS simulator

December 2007 (5.1)

• Extraction of topological devices

• Conversion from device parameters to layer parameters

• Conditional parameter calculation

• New layer operations and options

December 2006 (5.0)

• New LAYVER database format based on more compressed data

• New memory management enabling significant speed improvement

• More flexible device definition by means of an enhanced command set

June 2005 (4.8)

• Command loops in LAYVER command files supported now
  (SET, WHILE, ENDWHILE, BREAK, CONTINUE)

News in LAYCIR

March 2010

• LAYCIR is a new version of SPE used in LAYFRAME

• new interfaces support the simulation with SIMetrix, Smash, MSIM, and ADS

News in SPE

December 2007 (4.1)

• template-controlled netlist generation

• callback procedures for symbol parameters (compatible to LAYED)

News in LAYPAR

June 2005 (3.2)

• automatic feedthrough generation

News in SIMetrix Interface

August 2003

• The schematic editor SPE
  •  provides netlists for the SIMetrix simulator
  •  controls simulation
  •  controls display of results

• The Layout editor LAYED provides following capabilities :
  •  Schematic Driven Layout (SDLE) based on SIMetrix schematic editor
  •  Schematic-Layout Crossprobing
  •  Crossprobing between schematic and devices/nets extracted by LAYVER

New versions LAYED6.0 and LAYCIR4.4 for use in LAYFRAME

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