[net.general] Summary on IC Design Software

lin (10/23/82)

Early in the summer I queried about IC design software;
here (better late than never) is the summary of the
information people sent me.  The SPICE program which
comes from Berkeley is written in Fortran.  Because
of a preference for the VMS Fortran compiler, many
companies are choosing VMS so that they can run SPICE.
However, the correspondants from Berkeley report that
they distribute SPICE in Fortran because most of the
users have a Fortran compiler.  

M.I.T. has some C language software, including
design rule checkers and static checkers.  

Berkeley has an editor called CAESAR that runs on an
AED color terminal.  It was written up in VLSI earlier
in the year.

A correspondant from Univ. of North Carolina said
he thinks they have a version of SPICE in C.