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From: roy@mcnc.org (Subhash Chandra Roy)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi
Subject: Re: RS6000 and CAD Tools
Summary: Valid maybe.
Keywords: Valid
Message-ID: <2694@speedy.mcnc.org>
Date: 10 Nov 90 23:39:26 GMT
Expires: 15 Nov 90 05:00:00 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.171735.22704@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: roy@mcnc.org.UUCP (Subhash Chandra Roy)
Organization: MCNC; RTP, NC
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In article <1990Nov8.171735.22704@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> hb2t@maxwell.acc.Virginia.EDU (Hyuk Byun) writes:
>
|	I've been looking at cad platforms.  We're presently running Mentor
|on apollo 3500.  Has anyone heard about the cad companies which will support the
|new rs6000.  I've heard that the floating point processor is about 7 times faster,
|but how does it perform on graphics benchmarks?  Please respond to 
|hb2t@virginia.edu.
|
|						Hyuk Byun
|						Electrical Engineering Dept.
|						University of Virginia

I've heard Valid had plans to port it's software on to the RS6000.  I
saw a demo of Allegro, Valid's Multi-chip Module layout tool running on
a RS6000 at the ASICs conference.  Also with IBM now buying 12% of Valid
a full port seems likely.

Subhash