klayout-tools

Tools for AI agents to work with IC layout.

🌐 klayout-tools.org — project site.

The kicad-tools playbook, one layer down the stack: standalone Python tools that let AI agents (LLMs, autonomous coding assistants) parse, analyze, and manipulate chip layouts — GDSII/OASIS streams, DRC decks, LVS — programmatically, headless, with machine-readable JSON everywhere. Built on KLayout’s Python API the way kicad-tools builds on KiCad’s file formats: the heavy lifting stays in the proven engine; the agent-native surface is ours.

The target capability: an agent can take a spec through one of three peer paths on an open PDK, unaided, with every step headless and JSON-contracted — analog (spec → schematic/generator → sized circuit → layout → DRC/LVS clean → extracted netlist → simulation-verified), digital (spec → RTL → synthesis → place-and-route → DRC/LVS clean → timing-closed), and mixed-signal (both paths plus the signoff seam between them). ROADMAP.md holds the build order,…