Converting GDS files off of some 9tracks...

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    I wanted to see if perhaps any LSI/CAD people may be on the list that have
> done work on IC layouts from back in the 80's.    I have numerous 800BPI
> 9tracks that contain GDS binary streams on them.
> 
>   I need a conversion app/util to pull the data off of the tapes and back into
> GDS format.    

I work with GDS every day in my real job.  It's platform neutral, with 
everything specified down to the byte ordering and alignment (16-bit).  
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do, there's no 
conversion required.  Any CAD tool capable of reading GDS should 
understand it.

Contact me offline if you want to talk more.

Steve