KLayout's deep verification base project

KLayout's Deep Verification Base Project

Being a quick, powerful viewer and lightweight editor for Mask Layout files, KLayout's strengths were long found in the area of visualisation and editing of huge quantities of polygon shapes. The DRC module and the underlying API was a first step towards layout analysis. With the Deep Verification Base project I want to lay the basis for in-depth analysis features - looking below the surface of a flat layout view. Hierarchy comprehension and network analysis are the main focus topics for this project, the final vision being rich LVS verification capability. In this talk I will highlight the idea, the methods involved and the goals of the project which will lay the basis for this feature.