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SoC GDS project is a System-on-Chip Graphic Display Streamer.
Main features:
- Load multiple GDSII libraries with no size limits,
- Load gzipped GDSII libraries,
- Use full ruler and gridding functions,
- Display layout with unrestricted zoom functions,
- Configure layer display attributes,
- Use restricted hierarchy navigation,
- Load Cadence techfiles.
SoC GDS View is the entry-level option providing optimized GDSII display capabilities including color and pattern configuration file compatibility with Cadence for drop-in replacement or complementing in design flows.
SoC GDS Multi Frame extends the speed and power of SoC GDS View with advanced hierarchical navigation, input format support complemented with OpenAccess and LEF, as well as (VC)LEF generation. Verification of layouts is accelerated through hierarchical graphic cell comparison and hierarchical display of nets annotated by SoC GDS Contrast.
SoC GDS MultiFrame slashes load-times and delivers unmatched verification and validation technology.
SoC GDS Integrator enables socket creation and verification for system-level integration of ViCs (Virtual Components) as defined by VSIA (Virtual Socket Interface Alliance). Delivery of layouts is accelerated through LVS socket creation improvements, hierarchical geometrical cell comparison and a powerful interpreted scripting language for repetitive processing.
The new Virtual Cut feature allows to extract just a part of a layout for verification while totally preserving data confidentiality of the rest of the SoC.
SoC GDS Integrator provides full OpenAccess DataBases support (reading and writing).
SoC GDS Contrast couples SoC GDS Integrator with our patent pending eMicroscope technology to superpose simulation results from extracted netlists directly onto the layout. SoC GDS Contrast shortens your development cycles and reduces post-fabrication failures by enabling Virtual Test & Diagnostic before manufacturing test chips.
Delaying electron microscopy experiments until test chips are actually manufactured is costing you money right now. SoC GDS contrast is going to shorten your development cycles and reduce post-fab failures.
Enhancements:
- The layer configuration window has been enhanced to show the layer and data type numbers in the loaded map table, as well as unmapped layers.
- An abstract versus layout comparator has been implemented that allows automatically comparing all macros in a LEF with the corresponding GDSII cell, based on comparison of obstruction and port geometries.
- SoC GDS is now also available under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in 64-bit mode.

Gear Pro is a professional CD and DVD recording capability.
As the most comprehensive DVD/CD-Recording software package for professionals, GEAR PRO Linux incorporates the latest DVD/CD-Recordable technology for Imaging, Mission Critical Archiving, CAD/CAM and Graphics Storage, Title Development, and Pre-master Testing.
GEAR allows you easily and cost effectively store text, large data sets, software, database, audio/video files and back-up information on compact disc with full control over the formatting and mastering process. GEAR Software is pleased to announce that GEAR PRO Linux now supports IDE DVD recorders!
Main features:
- Supports all current Linux kernel releases
- Creation of CD and DVD images for all industry standard disc types including CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- DVD mastering capabilities for both single and dual sided discs
- Physical format support for mastering DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10 and DVD-18
- Able to format discs using ISO9660, UDF (Universal Disc Format), Rockridge and Joliet file extensions
- Comprehensive CD and DVD recorder support for all industry standard media types including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R dual-layer, DVD-RAM, CD-R and CD-RW
- Support for DLT, Exabyte, and DDS/DAT recording devices for creating DDP (Disc Description Protocol) master tapes
- Conversion of CD and DVD discs or projects to industry standard DDP 1.0 or 2.1 images for professional disc mastering
- Jukebox and autoloader management for in-house mastering, unattended disc replication and multi-disc recording of large data sets for disc duplication
- Batch file scripting capability allows for unattended recording or backup operations to CD and DVD
- Support for links, pipes, device special files, etc with permission and group handling
- Complete command and message-logging capability provides for documentation, post process diagnostics and improved error resolution
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface
Functionality:
- back up mission-critical data to CD and DVD media
- pre-master audio, video, software and game titles
- archive graphics, databases, email, third-party generated data files, music, digital photos and video
- Create cross-platform discs compatible with Windows, UNIX and Mac platforms
- replicate DVD and CD discs using a jukebox
- distribute documents, marketing materials, and other data on a CD or DVD
- copy non-protected DVDs and CDs
- extract content from CD and DVD
- use the media in your CD or DVD recorder for near-line incremental storage
Formatting:
- Supports all CD and DVD formats including CD-Audio, DDP, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- Provides DVD mastering for single or dual layer discs
- Allows the import of DVD-Video disc images (VIDEO_TS folders) for the creation of DVD-Video titles
- Enables the creation and manipulation of all industry standard file systems and file extensions including ISO9660, UDF 1.02 to UDF 2.5, Rock Ridge and Joliet
- Fast virtual image building requiring less than 5% of the total image size to record
- Direct-to-disc recording of files to UDF volumes
Recorder Support:
- Supports all of the latest CD and DVD recordable drives as well as most legacy devices
- Supports jukeboxes and media changers
- Automatically initiates support for new recorders (automatic drive recognition) without requiring driver or configuration file updates
- Supports test writing, CD and DVD recording speed setting, C2 error checking, multi-session disc creation, disc formatting and other advanced recorder features
- Enables all recording methods including track-at-once, disc-at-once, session-at-once, raw recording and fixed and variable packet writing
- Provides the capability to extract data and audio tracks (ripping)
- Allows direct disc-to-disc CD and DVD copying

Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver provides ODBC access to SQL Server for ODBC-enabled applications running on Linux and major Unix platforms.
Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005, and is fully compatible with the unixODBC Driver Manager, which is included in the standard product distribution.
ODBC Access to SQL Server from Unix and Linux
The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver connects Unix and Linux applications to SQL Server databases. Download our SQL Server ODBC driver to connect Perl, PHP, Python, C and any other ODBC-enabled language, interface or application to SQL Server.
Easysoft keep the ODBC-SQL Server Driver current with the latest version of SQL Server.
SQL Server 2005 support:
- MARS The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS), enabling your Linux/Unix applications to have more than one pending request per connection, and, in particular to have more than one default result set open per connection. The MARS feature removes the restriction present in earlier versions of SQL Server in which an open default result set blocks the driver from sending requests to the server until the entire result set is consumed.
- XML data type The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports the XML data type, a SQL Server 2005 data type that allows ODBC applications to use an XQuery to query the contents of an XML document stored in SQL Server, check that the document conforms to an XML schema, and even modify the contents of the XML document in place.
- Large-value data types The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports the varchar(max), nvarchar(max) and varbinary(max) data types. These data types enable SQL Server to store and retrieve large character, Unicode and binary data more efficiently.
- Snapshot transaction isolation levels The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports the snapshot isolation level. When reading rows modified by another transaction, snapshot isolation enables a user to retrieve the version of the row that existed when the transaction started.
- SQL Server Express The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports SQL Server Express, the free, easy-to-use, lightweight version of SQL Server 2005.
In addition, the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver provides these features:
- Easy access to SQL Server data The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver installation leads you through the process of creating your first data source and tests the new data source by retrieving some remote SQL Server data.
- Detect available SQL Server instances The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver includes a diagnostic program that uses the SQL Server Browser or SQL Server 2000 listener service to detect and report the SQL Server instances that are visible from your client machine. You can therefore verify that your SQL Server instance is available before configuring your ODBC data source.
- Access SQL Server from Perl, PHP, Python and C Use the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver with the Perl DBI and DBD::ODBC modules, PHP, PEAR DB, the Python mxODBC interface, C and any other ODBC-enabled programming language or interface.
- Connect Linux/Unix Applications to SQL Server Access SQL Server databases from Apache, ApplixWare, Informatica, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and any other ODBC-enabled application.
- 32-bit and 64-bit SQL Server driver Both 32bit and 64bit versions of the Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver are available, where appropriate.
- ODBC 3.51 support The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver complies with the ODBC 3.51 specification. The ODBC-SQL Server Driver supports all ODBC 3.51 API calls. The driver also supports applications written using earlier versions of ODBC.
- Unicode support The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is a Unicode ODBC driver that provides both Unicode and ANSI access to SQL Server databases.
- unixODBC support The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is compatible with and includes unixODBC, the open source ODBC Driver Manager for non-Windows platforms. The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver installation can automatically install the driver into unixODBC, making the ODBC-SQL Server Driver immediately available to your ODBC applications. The unixODBC project is currently led by Easysoft developer Nick Gorham and we have many years of experience in supporting and testing our drivers with unixODBC.
- Thread-safety The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver is thread-safe and therefore safe to use behind multi-threaded applications.
- ODBC diagnostic logging The Easysoft ODBC-SQL Server Driver lets you generate diagnostic trace logs that help you troubleshoot problems by monitoring the ODBC calls your application makes.