donham@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Christopher Donham) (06/28/89)
I am looking for the latest and greatest version of MAGIC from the fine
people at Berkeley. I have been unable to find a net address for any
of the people listed as editors of the 1986 version we have:
Walter S. Scott,
Robert N. Mayo,
Gordon Hamachi,
John K. Ousterhout
Places I tried include:
magic@kim.berkeley.edu
magic@ucbkim.berkeley.edu
mayo@mustard.berkeley.edu
Any information on the latest version of MAGIC, and an FTP site for
sources would be greatly appreciated. Since I do not normally read
this news group, please direct replies to me personally:
donham@grip.cis.upenn.edu
Thanks,
Christopher Donhammayo@decwrl.dec.com (Bob Mayo) (06/29/89)
In article <12468@netnews.upenn.edu> donham@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Christopher Donham) writes: > >I am looking for the latest and greatest version of MAGIC from the fine >people at Berkeley. I have been unable to find a net address ... The net address for the Magic group is "magic@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu". The 1986 release is the latest, although there are plans for a new release. The exact release date is not known at this time -- maybe 4-5 months from now. The new release will contain code contributed by Livermore Labs and Stanford, as well code from other places. Digital Equipment is helping out by allowing me to work on this, and by providing disk space and compute power. When the release is available I'll announce it on this newsgroup. I'm currently maintaining a list of Magic bug fixes for the '86 release. An index of the files available is attached to this message. There aren't enough free hours available to provide full-scale support for the system, but I believe the notes I maintain are sufficient to keep people reasonably up-to-date. If you want to help out with this cooperative project, feel free to write up a cad tool note that might be of interest to others. I'll be more than happy to include it in my list. --Bob Mayo INDEX OF CAD TOOL NOTES (current through 6/28/89) This index is maintained by Bob Mayo (mayo@decwrl.dec.com). The notes are available from Bob Mayo via electronic mail. * indicates a recent addition to this list. Note # Date Description of problem ------+---------------+------------------------------------------- AERO-1 6/29/88 EQNTOTT: Fixes for Suns UCB-1 12/31/85 MAGIC: Slashes in cell names UCB-2 2/5/86 MAGIC: Old SCMOS tech file UCB-3 2/13/86 MAGIC: Core dumps on Sun3 UCB-4 4/25/86 MAGIC: Wrong resistance extraction UCB-5 8/3/86 MAGIC: Cell selection core dump UCB-6 11/24/86 MAGIC: Calma output has wrong coordinates UCB-7 9/9/87 MAGIC: How to get SCMOS tech file from MOSIS UCLA-1 4/15/88 SIM2SPICE: Running on a non-VAX machine UTEX-1 6/22/88 MAGIC: Removing references to ~cad UTEX-2 6/22/88 MAGIC: Running on an AED 512 WISC-1 4/13/88 MAGIC: Removing assembly language from Magic WISC-2 4/13/88 MAGIC: Porting Magic to the Sun4/110C WISC-3 4/13/88 ESIM: Porting Esim to the Sun4/110C WISC-4 4/13/88 MAGIC: Porting Magic to the Sun3/110C WISC-5 4/13/88 CRYSTAL: Porting Crystal to the Sun4/110C WISC-6 4/18/88 MAGIC: Curing "window lock broken" on Suns WISC-7 4/29/88 X.V10R4: Porting to the Sun4/110C WISC-8 6/6/88 MAGIC: Relaxed copyright on the graphics drivers WISC-9 10/26/88 MAGIC: Running under SunOS-Rel-4.0
marco@buengc.BU.EDU (Marco Zelada) (06/29/89)
In article <12468@netnews.upenn.edu> donham@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Christopher Donham) writes: > >I am looking for the latest and greatest version of MAGIC from the fine >people at Berkeley. I heard some rumors that UCB had or will drop Magic. Is there any truth to this ? Is there any indication that there will be a new Magic release ever ? What about the Oct toolset, how many schools are using it as a teaching tool ? We have run an experimental class using the Oct toolset as the primary teaching tool and it went well, all things considered. Most of our problems were with vem and the fact that we still had to interface to non-Oct tools such as the scmos DRC, cazm, mextra, spice, etc. I think that there should be better support for a complete cell library in all views ( schematic, symbolic and physical ). The MSU cells are provided, but they only exists in the physical view. Does anybody have a schematic pallet with symbols for all of the cells included in the MSU cells ? If so, does bdsim understand each symbol's functionality ? Is there any document I can read that explains all of the steps needed to incorporate a new cell library into Oct, generate all views for every cell ( schematic, symbolic, physical ) and the tools that need to be told about this new cells ? I have read most of the docs included with Oct 3.2 but still need more. I also read the few lines of explanation the MSU guys left for knowing how to generate physical views out of cif. Thanks in advance. -- ___________________________________________________________________________ | Name: Marco Zelada | Tel: 617 353 9882, Fax: 353 6322 | | Group: VLSI CAD Research Laboratory | E-mail: marco@buengc.bu.edu | | Dept: Electrical & Computer Eng. | US-Mail: 44 Cummington St. | | Org: Boston University | Boston MA, 02215 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------