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From: hui@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Michael Hui)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: VLSI Design Tools on PCs
Message-ID: <1098@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 28 Jul 90 04:49:27 GMT
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In article <1990Jul27.145255.4742@ameristar> rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
>I am curious why anyone would go to the trouble of doing IC design
>on a PC.  It would seem that unless one is designing $450 Mosis Tiny
>Chips, the fab costs for just one run approach the cost of a workstation, 
[ ... ]

That type of software is perfectly adequate for laying out an analog IC.