StickOut

StickOut is an open-source, interactive, browser-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool designed for creating, editing, and validating VLSI (Very-Large-Scale Integration) stick diagrams.

• The Problem: Hardware engineering students, educators, and VLSI layout designers often struggle with heavy, complex, and desktop-locked layout editors when sketching initial topology ideas or preparing academic papers.

• The Solution: StickOut offers a lightweight, responsive, and web-accessible interface that makes drawing CMOS layouts intuitive, fast, and fluid.

• What's Unique: Features an infinite grid canvas with snapping, intelligent same-layer wire crossovers (with right-click junction overrides), Photoshop-style layer management (locking, reordering, visibility, opacity), stacked via-contact structures, LaTeX-style mathematical subscript labels, and high-resolution, content-aware PNG export.