GDS Utilities 2.0 for Windows 10 64-bit
GDSTOOL.EXE is a command-line program that performs the following operations:
gdstool -i : |
get a quick information about GDS file, cells, polygons,layers, hierarchy. In GDS Utilities version 1.x this operation was performed by gdsinfo.exe |
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gdstool gds-file [asc-file] : |
convert binary GDSII file to the ASCII format. In GDS Utilities version 1.x this operation was performed by gds2asc.exe
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gdstool asc-file gds-file : |
convert ASCII file to the binary GDSII format. In GDS Utilities version 1.x this operation was performed by gds2asc.exe |
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GDS Utilities GUI : |
convenient batch processing of multiple files
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Version Matrix
1 File sizes are approximate
2 64-bit file access and small memory footprint
allow working with very large files