bouldin@SUN1.ENGR.UTK.EDU (Don Bouldin) (11/21/89)
In reply to the question concerning cif2ps, Rick Spickelmier of UC Berkeley suggests the following: Well, if they have Oct data, I've got some nifty HP and PostScript plotters... I have seen the cif2ps program. It has a number of problems - the most important is that it has no real concept of layer priority or stipple patterns. PostScript has no direct stipple pattern support, so you have to fake it. The reason oct2ps files take so long to print is because of what I have to do to fake it. Short of incorporating the same sort of things I had to do to oct2ps, cif2ps will continue to have this problem. Actually, for a hacker with some free time on his/her hands, it should be easy to rip out the oct parts of oct2ps and hpgl and replace them with our cif parser (the cp and cif packages on the octtools distribution). Rick ---------------------------How to obtain Octtools------------------ The Oct Tools tape is a collection of programs and libraries which together form an integrated system for IC design. The system includes tools for multi-level logic synthesis, standard cell placement and routing, custom cell design, and a variety of utility programs for manipulating symbolic and geometric design data. Most tools are integrated with the Oct data manager and the VEM graphical user interface. This tape distribution includes the following programs: text- based and graphcis-based editors, a gate-level simulator, logic synthesizer, multiple-valued PLA minimizer, C-based interpreter for a subset of CommonLisp, format converter from MAGIC to Oct, multiple-level logic optimizer, macro-cell place and route program, state assignment program, format converter to PostScript, PLA generator, interface to the SPICE3C circuit simulator, simulated annealing placement program, and a symbolic layout spacing and compaction program. The software is provided with complete source on two 9-track, 1600 BPI UNIX tar format tapes, loads in approximately 60 Megabytes and requires approximately 90 Megabytes to build. The software has been built and tested on the following machines and operating systems: DEC VAX: ULTRIX 2.2, ULTRIX 3.0, 4.3 BSD; DEC MIPS: ULTRIX 3.0; HP 9000/350: HP BSD; SEQUENT Symmetry: DYNIX; Sun 3: OS 4. To obtain a copy of Oct 3.0 for a $175 distribution charge, contact: Cindy Manly Industrial Liaison Program 471 Cory Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (415)-643-6687 ------------------------------------ Forwarded by Don Bouldin, University of Tennessee bouldin@sun1.engr.utk.edu []
montjoy@nest.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy) (11/29/90)
Hi. Is there a recent version of a cif to postscript convertor out there somewhere? Also, has anyone got cifplot to work with a versatec V-80A plotter driven by a SUN with IKON-1088 broad? Thanks. Rob Montjoy E-MAIL Rob.Montjoy@UC.EDU uunet!Rob.Montjoy@UC.EDU