Bantam

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Saratoga Design Systems maintains a test suite of more than 100 GDSII Stream files on which it rigorously tests BANTAM for accuracy. BANTAM is not released unless it successfully passes all tests. BANTAM endured a rigorous six month customer beta test period in which its accuracy was tested on hundreds more full chip GDSII Stream design. BANTAM’s accuracy was verified… read more →

BANTAM typically optimizes 1GB of GDSII Stream data in three minutes or less when run a computer meeting the requirements above. read more →

BANTAM runs on Linux x86 and Solaris SPARC 2 computer systems. BANTAM is tuned to run on “server” class computers and some “power user desktop” computers: at least 1GB of RAM, 2GB of virtual memory. A SPECint rating of 1000 or greater is highly desirable. read more →

Yes. In fact, BANTAM excels at optimizing GDSII Stream files that are optically corrected or use phase shifted mask technologies. BANTAM typically reduces the size of OPC or PSM design files by 75% or more. BANTAM has reduced many OPC and PSM design files by 95%. read more →

BANTAM routinely and accurately optimizes GDSII Stream files of tens of gigabytes in size. BANTAM accurately optimized an 87GB file. BANTAM has never encountered a file too large for it to optimize. read more →

There is no need to “undo” BANTAM optimization. BANTAM output files are GDSII Stream and 100% point-for-point equivalent to the input file. Any tool that reads GDSII Stream version 6 will be able to read a BANTAM output file. read more →

BANTAM does not use compression technologies of any kind. BANTAM is optimization. BANTAM output files are GDSII Stream version 6 files. read more →