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From: narayan@photon.tamu.edu (Sriram Narayan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Porting Berkeley CAD software to HPs
Keywords: Berkeley CAD, porting
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Date: 29 Nov 89 15:21:06 GMT
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Reply-To: narayan@photon.tamu.edu (Sriram Narayan)
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University
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I haven't seen a discussion on this topic before, so anybody has
information, so please e-mail me if I have missed something. 

I just recently got the Software Release bulletin of the EECS Berkeley
group which produces a lot of EE Analog/Digital simulator and other 
software relating to VLSI design and layout. I know for a fact that
Spice3b.1 and Spice3C.1 has been ported to HP-UX, although it is
not as straightforward as they make it out to be. There are still bugs
and compiler warnings which occur. Moreover, I believe the X-Window 
version they use is V10R4 (?) which is not comaptible with our V11
under HP-UX 6.5. Also, the tape format of HP is different, so it
is difficult to get tapes explicitly for HP machines. 

I would like to hear from others who have installed Berkeley CAD software
to HP 9000/300 series. Each of the packages sell for $150.00 and there
are still some real good stuff worth having especially for people in EE.
Thanks for any information.


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