Hello, all, I'm hereby announcing Data.GDS, a small module to write and (eventually -- that's part of the "pre") read GDS files. For those of you not in the semiconductor biz, GDS-II is one of the classic formats of the industry. It's perhaps ever so slightly obsolete at this point, as the OASIS format is in the process of displacing it, but there are still huge numbers of designs in GDS format, and lots and lots of tools deal with it. Since I'm a sad sick weirdo(*), I spent a perfectly nice & sunny NorCal day hacking up this initial version of this module. It is to the point where it can generate a GDS file of your devising, although your specification of it still has to be at a very low level. It would be, and eventually will be, nicer to specify things at a higher level of abstraction. Also, it will eventually be nice to be able to read GDS files, returning an array of GDSRecord. I know how to do that, and I plan to, but I haven't got there yet. This ought to already be properly cabalized, and there's a small test program included; run it, save the output somewhere, and compare that with the sample GDS file which I also included in the tarball. If you examine the GDS file itself, you will see that, although it is small, it does in fact contain vital bits of design which will no doubt enable the biz to continue Moore's law for at least another century or so. Once I've implemented the reader, I'll upload this to hackage; in the meantime, if any of you are especially interested in what the rest of the interface to this should look like, I'm happy to hear your suggestions! Uwe (*) In point of fact, I am neither sad nor sick; I am in fact mostly happy & healthy. The reason I wasn't out taking a long walk today was because, alas, I dinged one achilles tendon a few days ago, and wanted to let it heal a bit... as to the "weirdo" charge, I beg you, gentle readers, avert your eyes while I plead no contest! :-)