Slam is a mature IC Layout editor with the ability to edit very large designs (such as stream files larger than 10GB). Novel features include threading for redraw, support for displaying on multiple X servers simultaneously, and a Tcl interface to the database for user extensibility. The system is a library based system with multi-user support. Programmable structures (P-Cells) are available in Tcl. The editor includes gds input and output. License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes:
This release adds additional data compression when converting stream files for viewing only. The new compression reduces memory usage by 5% as a minimum, and 50% or more for highly repetitive data. This release also adds a native Linux kernel 2.6 64 bit platform in addition to the existing 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernel. A number of other minor GUI changes and bugfixes were made.