Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!d85-per From: d85-per@nada.kth.se (Per Hammarlund) Newsgroups: comp.lsi Subject: VLSI design tools Message-ID: <424@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 23 Jun 88 13:22:11 GMT Reply-To: d85-per@nada.kth.se (Per Hammarlund) Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm Lines: 122 Some time ago I asked the net for VLSI design software. These are the 3 toolsets I have been recommended and have been able to gather information about: ************************************************** The 1986 berkeley vlsi design tools. This distribution is ONLY for organizations inside America and it is not in the public domain. There is a $175 materials and handling fee if your organization is a member of the Industrial Liaison Program, a Government Agency or a University, otherwise you are asked to make a $1,500 donation. For more information get in contact with: Cindy Manly Industrial Liaison Office 479 Cory Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (415) 643-6687 cindy%janus@berkeley.edu cindy@janus.berkeley.edu ...!ucbvax!janus!cindy ************************************************** A toolset from the University of Washington, includes all kinds of good stuff! And it may be distributed outside America! I have been advised that there is a new release in the works, out sometime this summer - it is not decided whether this release will be available to foreign institutions. For more information read the following and for even more contact Vicky Palm! CMOS Toolset Available The Northwest Lab for Integrated Systems (formerly UW/NW VLSI Consortium) announces another release of VLSI design software. Release 3.1 contains tools written at the University of Washington as well as UC-Berkeley, CMU and MIT. MOSIS CMOS as well as nMOS processes are fully supported. This release is available for a nominal handling fee ($75) to universities and government contractors. Included in this release are: - The entire 1986 UCB distribution (Magic, Espresso, Crystal, Esim, and many others). - Magic drivers for a variety of devices including SUN 3, VAX station GPX, and Apollo workstations (color, 8 planes minimum). - Some of the older UCB tools such as Caesar, Lyra and Mextra. - The switch level timing simulator RNL, originally developed by Chris Terman of MIT. - CFL, a library of procedures for assembly of layout cells into modules. - Layout generators for a variety of modules including multipliers, FIFOs, ROMs, PLAs, register files, counters, decoders and MUXes. - A padframe generator capable of producing a MOSIS-compatible standard frame instantiated with CMOS pads. All inquiries should be addressed to: Vicky Palm Northwest Laboratory for Integrated Systems Department of Computer Science, FR-35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 545-3796 palm@cs.washington.edu ************************************************** The Electric package. These are Steven Rubin's, the package's author, own words: Electric is a complete package that includes a graphical editor and many tools (design rule checkers, PLA generators, simulators [including interface to SPICE], compactors, network consistency checkers, and even a VHDL compiler for placing and routing standard cell libraries). The system also handles many environments of design including nMOS (currently two different design-rule sets), CMOS (currently six different design-rule sets including one for MOSIS), Bipolar, Schematics, etc. Electric is described in my recent textbook, "Computer Aids for VLSI Design", Addison-Wesley, 1987 (yes, Steven M. Rubin, author). Best of all, Electric is available to any orginazation that is willing to sign a noncommercial/nondisclosure license agreement and pay a tape fee of $200. There are over 100 groups throughout the world that already have the system. If you want Electric, call or write: Steven Rubin Schlumberger Palo Alto Research 3340 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, California 94304 (415) 496-4624 rubin@spar ************************************************** That's it. If you are interested in any of the packages, I recommend that you get in contact with the contact persons listed. Good luck! I would like to thank Vicky Palm, Cindy Manly and Steven Rubin for their help as well as all the people that came with the recommendations. /Per Hammarlund