lyon@apple.com (Dick Lyon) (11/21/89)
In article <2958@iitmax.IIT.EDU> nestor@iitmax.IIT.EDU (John Nestor) writes: > We are considering purchasing the PC-based layout editor from > Tanner research in our undergraduate digital & VLSI labs. Has anyone > had experience with this tool? I'd appreciate any comments, good or bad. I designed several chips with the PC version of L-Edit before the Mac version was out. Both are quite nice, and nearly identical, including compatible files. (-: The PC version is nice because it is very Mac-like. If you have to use a PC, this is the program for you. :-) On the Mac, the DRC is still weak (it flattens the cell and checks N objects in N^2 time), but is more useful due to the larger memory space. Tanner tells me improvements are being worked on. In general, L-Edit is simple, fast, and flexible, not all-powerful like Magic or Oct. It is very good and quick at reading and writing CIF, and now includes arbitrary polygons (Mac version 2.01 and whatever the current PC version is) and unlimited number of layers. Dick Lyon <lyon@apple.com> opinions expressed are my own, and may be orthogonal to my employer's