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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:

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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

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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
  
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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



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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