HyperVibe (“Vibe”) is a layout viewing environment for easy user navigation and querying of an integrated circuit design.  Vibe quickly and easily reads and displays a GDSII file, with additional formats to come.  The engineer can quickly and efficiently navigate their layout.  Vibe runs on Linux and Solaris, and includes a standard TCL interface.  Besides the many features listed below, Vibe includes an interface to HyperPlot®, the World’s Fastest Plotting System ™. 

• Inquiry command to show object attributes
• Multi-segment ruler command for measuring
• User definable color/fill/line style for each layer
• User definable fills and line styles
• Selectability/Visibility by type and layer on a per window basis
• Text readable configuration file
• Multiple X server display
• Hot keys, bind keys: translation of a keystroke in a graphic window to a user definable action.  A default set of translations is provided.
• Multiple window support (single or multi-server)
• Library browsing
• Dynamic Layer Display window available to control/display current windows layer visibility/selectability mask
• Reads compressed files directly
• Supports all angle instances
• Supports instance magnification
• Supports up to 50 levels of hierarchy

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