 | Founded on March 8, 2005, Laflin Limited has opened its doors for business armed with the fastest GDS and photomask data viewer available on the market today. HOTSCOPE, developed by the world's largest comprehensive printing company, Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) of Japan, and distributed by Jedat Inc. (Japan EDA Technologies Inc., JEDAT), is being marketed, sold, and supported exclusively by Laflin in the U.S. market.
Growing chip complexity, combined with data preparation steps such as optical proximity correction (OPC) and dummy pattern insertion required for deep submicron manufacturing processes have driven chip GDS and photomask data sizes into the 10s of gigabyte range. Conventional EDA data viewers are incapable of handling such large data sets with reasonable response time and memory usage.
HOTSCOPE, already in production use at numerous memory, semiconductor and photomask manufacturers throughout Japan and Taiwan, can deliver file open times in the minutes rather than hours time frame. This file access speed, combined with its small memory footprint (in the few 100s of MB range for large data sets of today), makes HOTSCOPE a key weapon in the physical, mask, and process engineers' verification arsenal.
HOTSCOPE provides support for the following types of data:
- GDSII
- OASIS
- MEBES (MODEI/II,EXT,RETICLE,MODE4/5)
- HL 700/800/950
- VSB 8/11/12
- JEOL 6AIII/7000MV/9000MV
- MICRONIC
- MANN
- JOBDEC
HOTSCOPE runs on Solaris, HPUX, and Linux platforms.
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