LSI design flow and EDA

Which are the typical formats of layout data handed to manufacturing for mask making?

  1. AVerilog
  2. BSPICE netlist
  3. CGDSII and OASIS
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Answer: C. GDSII and OASIS

GDSII and OASIS are data formats that describe layout shapes (polygons) layer by layer; they are handed to manufacturing at tape-out and used to make masks. Verilog is a circuit description language, and a SPICE netlist is data for circuit simulation.

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