info-vlsi@ucbvax.ARPA (03/26/85)
From: ouster@ucbkim (John Ousterhout) We've recently made available a new distribution of VLSI tools. They include: Magic, a new layout editor with a continuous design-rule checker, routing tools, and an incremental and hierarchical circuit extractor (a future release will also include plowing, but it isn't ready for this release); Mpack, a Magic version of the Tpack module-generation system; a host of PLA tools developed by Profs. Newton and Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, including Espresso, Pleasure, and Panda, an NMOS/CMOS version of Chris Terman's ESIM program; the latest version of the timing analysis program Crystal, which now handles CMOS and has the slope-based timing models; an NMOS Multibus design frame by Gaetano Borriello; and a number of other tools. This set of tools runs on VAXes (only AED displays are supported) or on Sun workstations with the SunColor option (the 160 isn't supported yet). We recommend the Sun workstation (but be sure to get 4 Mbytes of memory). If you've gotten the 1983 VLSI Tools set and you are a university, you can get the 1985 set by the same mechanism: send a tape and letter of non-redistrution to John Ousterhout Computer Science Division Department of EECS University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 If you're not a university, or you aren't sure about how to word the letter of non-redistribution, send me your U.S. mailing address (my electronic address is ousterhout@berkeley.ARPA) and I'll send you an information sheet about the tape.
info-vlsi@ucbvax.ARPA (03/26/85)
From: Amar Mukherjee <amar%ucf.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
John:
I already sent my tape and the letter of non-distribution
about a couple of weeks ago. I hav'nt received Magic yet. Please
look into the matter. Thank you very much.
Amar
( Amar Mukherjee, Dept. of CS,U.of Central
Florida, Orlando,Fl.32816.)