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Article #379Re: RS6000 and CAD Tools
From: Subhash Chandra Roy
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 23:39
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 23:39
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In article <1990Nov8.171735.22704@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> hb2t@maxwell.acc.Virginia.EDU (Hyuk Byun) writes: > | I've been looking at cad platforms. We're presently running Mentor |on apollo 3500. Has anyone heard about the cad companies which will support the |new rs6000. I've heard that the floating point processor is about 7 times faster, |but how does it perform on graphics benchmarks? Please respond to |hb2t@virginia.edu. | | Hyuk Byun | Electrical Engineering Dept. | University of Virginia I've heard Valid had plans to port it's software on to the RS6000. I saw a demo of Allegro, Valid's Multi-chip Module layout tool running on a RS6000 at the ASICs conference. Also with IBM now buying 12% of Valid a full port seems likely. Subhash
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!roy From: roy@mcnc.org (Subhash Chandra Roy) Newsgroups: comp.lsi Subject: Re: RS6000 and CAD Tools Summary: Valid maybe. Keywords: Valid Message-ID: <2694@speedy.mcnc.org> Date: 10 Nov 90 23:39:26 GMT References: <1990Nov8.171735.22704@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: roy@mcnc.org.UUCP (Subhash Chandra Roy) Organization: MCNC; RTP, NC Lines: 18