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There are many GDSII viewers available. Public domain, open-source, freeware, commercial, plugins. What makes
Koala different?
Koala is much more than just a high-speed 3D GDSII viewer.
Ideal for exploration of EDA structures from
individual transistors, through standard cells and intricate vertical routing up to full
designs, Koala extracts the
fabricated structures such as diffusion from the GDSII layout using user-defined Boolean
equations and displays 3D layout as it appears on the silicon.
Key Features
Addressing a wide range of needs, Koala is built around an intuitive user interface, providing immediate access to its advanced
productivity enhancing functionality throughout the design creation and validation phases, right into final marketing. From quick
and easy layout viewing, to final insertions of cells before mask generation, via advanced hierarchical integration of blocks,
including solutions for preserving confidentiality in case of verifications.
- Display arbitrary devices or geometry.
Koala is not restricted to the source GDSII. The extraction engine displays derived geometry so you can
configure it to show transistor channels, via fills, non-planar effects or even to highlight DRC errors.
Extracted layers displayed in real-time even on the largest designs
- Interactive cutaways through your design in X, Y and Z.
Inspect the inner workings of your design, deep into the substrate, unlimited by scale restrictions.
- Interactive 3D display.
Unlike standard 3D viewers, Koala allows real-time rotation, zooming and panning of enormous
designs, and its state of the art multi texturing, lighting, environment mapping and shadow generation
engine guarantees a stunningly fluid result.
- Reliably loads huge designs with GDSII format error detection and correction.
Koala has been optimised to work with today's huge designs with even the most restricted computing
platform.
Beyond its technical role, Koala is ideal for displaying complex designs to a non-technical audience.
Unlike traditional processors which require require complete flattening and merging of
the entire design before deriving fabrication layers,
Koala's unique incremenal algorithms
guarantee lightning fast-loading and immediate, real-time display of cross-sections and 3d
views of the largest GDSII designs with minimal memory and CPU requirements.
Layers embedded deep within the substrate layers such as the wells, Epi, STI, and even the transistor channels can be derived and viewed
in dynamic X, Y and Z cross-sections.
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