SoC GDS offers an intuitive user interface, providing advanced productivity enhancing functionalities, throughout the design creation and validation chains. SoC GDS addresses a wide range of needs, from quick and easy layout viewing, to final insertions of cells before mask generation, via advanced hierarchical integration of blocks, including solutions for preserving confidentiality in case of verifications. This framework independent Streamer focuses on standard exchange formats for bridging proprietary EDA Frameworks. Through dedicated options, SoC GDS fits the needs of Virtual Component providers, SoC integrators and process/product engineers. It is also the ideal solution to complete quality procedures for acceptance of layout databases by chip finishing teams, mask shops or silicon foundries.