gds2pov is a program to take a integrated circuit gds2 layout file and output a POV-Ray scene description file of the gds2 data. This allows the creation of attractive 3D pictures of a layout.
POV-Ray is a completely free, cross platform ray tracer. It can be obtained from http://www.povray.org/
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
Install gds2pov
To install gds2pov, simply use the following command: