DRC with Klayout

Running DRC (Design Rule Checks) is a crucial part of the design flow to ensure ready-for-tape-out.

Klayout provides a DRC checking engine (for more information, please check out https://www.klayout.de/doc/manual/drc.html).

To streamline the user workflow, a DRC check using KLayout can be launched directly from IPKISS, using the method documented below.

Please note that the DRC deck should be written as a KLayout macro made to run in batch mode. For more details please check the documentation below.

run_drc_klayout

Run a DRC check on a GDS file through the KLayout DRC engine.