Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: setupEM
Version: 0.14.2
Summary: Python tool for configuration of gds2palace workflow with GUI.
Author-email: Volker Muehlhaus <volker@muehlhaus.com>
License-Expression: GPL-3.0-or-later
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/VolkerMuehlhaus/setupEM
Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/VolkerMuehlhaus/setupEM
Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/VolkerMuehlhaus/setupEM/blob/main/doc/CHANGES.md
Requires-Python: >=3.9
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE
Requires-Dist: gds2palace>=0.9.0
Requires-Dist: gds_prepare_for_EM>=1.6.0
Requires-Dist: PySide6
Requires-Dist: shiboken6
Requires-Dist: scipy
Requires-Dist: requests
Requires-Dist: scikit-rf
Requires-Dist: matplotlib
Requires-Dist: numpy
Requires-Dist: gdspy
Requires-Dist: meshio
Requires-Dist: pyvista
Requires-Dist: pyvistaqt
Dynamic: license-file

# Python GUI for gds2palace 

![Intro](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VolkerMuehlhaus/setupEM/main/doc/png/setupEM_banner.png)

## Install

    pip install setupEM

**Full documentation, installation guide, and usage walkthrough:**
https://github.com/VolkerMuehlhaus/setupEM

## Recent changes

# What's New - October 21, 2026

**Tools > Simplify GDS:** the simplification code moved to gds_prepare_for_EM (module `gds_simplify_for_em`), where the gds2palace MCP server uses it too. setupEM now requires gds_prepare_for_EM 1.6.0 or later; `pip install --upgrade setupEM` updates it.

Fix: with **Merge via arrays** (and no fill removal or merging per layer), the simplified file still contained the original subcells as extra top-level cells. Without a cell name, gds2palace reads the first top-level cell, which could be one of them, e.g. a pad cell instead of the design. These left-over cells are now removed.

# What's New - October 19, 2026

**Stackup Editor, ADS Momentum (*.ltd) import:** metals with an EXPAND thickness operation now make the dielectric next to them thicker, as in ADS, instead of reaching into the dielectric below. Before, a thick EXPAND DOWN metal (e.g. MET1/MET2 in a GaAs stackup) overlapped the layers underneath it, and a via could end up with zero height. Files where long lines are wrapped or END_... markers follow the last entry on the same line now import too; before, they failed with "No usable dielectric slabs".

# What's New - October 18, 2026

**Touchstone files with different port impedances:** the option line of the combined `.sNp` file now has one Z0 per port, in port order. Before, ports with the same Z0 as port 1 were left out.

Full history: [CHANGES.md](https://github.com/VolkerMuehlhaus/setupEM/blob/main/doc/CHANGES.md)

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**Note:** the `setupEM` PyPI package itself requires:

- gds2palace>=0.9.0
- gds_prepare_for_EM>=1.6.0
- PySide6
- shiboken6
- scipy
- requests
- scikit-rf
- matplotlib
- numpy
- gdspy
- meshio
- pyvista
- pyvistaqt

(Other Python modules mentioned above are only needed to run standalone helper scripts in this repository, not to use the installed package.)
