robin@edson.UUCP (Robin Turner) (11/04/88)
Does anyone have any information regarding public (or private) domain software for converting VLSI designs from CIF to GDS2 format and vice versa? Please reply directly to: robin@edson@alberta.ca Thanks in advance!! Robin Turner Dept. Electrical Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2G7 (403) 432-2787
waters@dover.uucp (Mike Waters) (11/09/88)
In article <215@edson.UUCP> robin@edson.UUCP (Robin Turner) writes: >Does anyone have any information regarding public (or private) >domain software for converting VLSI designs from CIF to GDS2 >format and vice versa? > >Please reply directly to: robin@edson@alberta.ca I don't know of any direct conversion software - public domain OR commercial, but there are a number of CIF to EDIF and EDIF to GDS2 converters that have been written. The net result should be the same. EDIF was created to solve just that kind of translation problem. -- Mike Waters (for your EDIFication) Motorola SMART CAD Group - EDIF (ANSI/EIA std. 548) support Mesa, AZ ...!sun!sunburn!dover!waters OR moto@cad.Berkley.EDU
art@buengc.BU.EDU (A. R. Thompson) (11/11/88)
In article <521@dover.uucp> waters@dover.UUCP (Mike Waters) writes: >In article <215@edson.UUCP> robin@edson.UUCP (Robin Turner) writes: >>Does anyone have any information regarding public (or private) >>domain software for converting VLSI designs from CIF to GDS2 >>format and vice versa? >> >>Please reply directly to: robin@edson@alberta.ca > The Vivid system from MCNC has a program, "ATOLL" (A Translator Of Layout Languages) that translates between CIF, GDSII and MCNC's own layout language Llama. MCNC has dropped support for Vivid (drat!), but you still might be able to get a copy.
stark@decwrl.dec.com (Don Stark) (11/11/88)
Magic can do this, providing there are no non-manhattan geometries. Simply read in the design using the cif reader, then write it back out using the calma writer. To get a copy of magic, write: Industrial Liaison Program - ERL Dept of EECS Univeristy of California Berkeley, CA 94720