mf@savax.UUCP (Marc Fleischmann) (04/14/87)
Can someone provide a pointer to the CIF file format and any translation software for going to/from this and various design packages. Thanks /marc -- Marc Fleischmann Sanders Associates, Inc. - Nashua N.H. (603) 885-5050 UUCP: ihnp4!decvax!savax!mf
harmon@NPS-CS.ARPA.UUCP (04/14/87)
In response to the request from Marc Fleischmann for the format of a CIF file, the best reference that I have found is A Guide to LSI Implementation by Robert W. Hon and Carlo H. Sequin, second edition, SSl-79-7 January 1980, published by XEROX Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto CA 94304. This book has a full chapter titled "A CIF Primer". Another source of information on CIF is Introduction to VLSI Systems by Mead and Conway, 1980, published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. See pages 115-127. Some design systems like Magic can write CIF and read CIF that is in the proper format. I have just finished writing patches to the MacPitts silicon compiler and the L5 layout language from MIT that produce CIF that can be read by Magic. Jim Harmon harmon@nps-cs.arpa
bolton@sask.UUCP (Ron J. Bolton) (04/24/87)
> > Can someone provide a pointer to the CIF file format and any translation > software for going to/from this and various design packages. > As stated by harmon in his reply to your request, Hon is one of the best. As to translation software, the Laboratory for Integrated Systems at the University of Washington (contact Vicki Bird) has a VLSI toolkit that includes what you need. The ones they distribute were originally written at Berkeley. ron. -- Ron J. Bolton | UUCP: {alberta,ihnp4,utcsri}!sask!bolton Dept. Elect. Eng. | PHONE: (306)-966-5412 Univ. of Saskatchewan | BITNET: bolton@sask Saskatoon, Sask. | POSTAL CODE: S7N 0W0, CANADA
larry@VLSI.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Larry McMurchie) (04/27/87)
> > Can someone provide a pointer to the CIF file format and any translation > software for going to/from this and various design packages. As noted by Ron Bolton, we at the NW Lab for Integrated Systems distribute a package of software that includes translators to/from CIF as well as .SIM (transistor netlist) formats. Included are past and present Berkeley tools (e.g. Caesar and Magic) as well as ones we have written ourselves. Contact Vicky Palm (palm@washington.edu) for moapthavhavhlld Or