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From: marco@buengc.BU.EDU (Marco Zelada)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad
Subject: Re: Latest version of MAGIC
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Date: 29 Jun 89 03:48:37 GMT
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In article <12468@netnews.upenn.edu> donham@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Christopher Donham) writes:
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>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.
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