[net.arch] VLSI design tools request

dld@ganehd.UUCP (Darryl DeFreese) (12/17/85)

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          I am posting this as a favour to Dr. J. W. Smith of the Com-
     puter  Science  Department at the University of Georgia.  Replies
     can either be mailed to him or emailed to me and I  will  forward
     them.  Dr. Smith's address is:

             The University of Georgia
             Department of Computer Science
             Graduate Studies Research Center
             Athens, Georgia 30602

             Phone: (404)542-2911

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          I am inaugurating a graduate course in  VLSI  design  to  be
     taught  this  winter  (W'86)  term.  Since this is a new area for
     this department, we do not have all the facilities one would wish
     for  offering  such a course.  In particular, we have a dearth of
     display facilities and cad tools for VLSI design.

          We are installing an AT&T 3b5 this month, and will leave the
     Berkeley  tools  operational  on that by the time the course will
     require them.  However, we will have no graphic display  attached
     to  that machine at first.  On the other hand, we have 120 Zenith
     PC's (30 with color monitors).

          I wonder if you have or know of any software product in  the
     public  domain or available commercially that allows the PC to be
     used as a VLSI design station or as a edit/display front  end  to
     another  machine.   If  so, would you please let me [or me...dld]
     know about it at the address above.  For  this  application,  the
     quality/sophistication of the tools need not be great.  This is a
     50 hour course (10 wks., 5 hrs.), and the background of the  stu-
     dents  is  not  in  hardware.  Anything which works and gives the
     spirit of the design process would be just the ticket.

          Thank you in advance for your attention.


             Sincerely,

             J.W. Smith
             Associate Professor
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