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Subject: CHISEL now available
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 17:03:13 EDT
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From @SANDIA.ARPA:gvax.kevin@Cornell.ARPA  Fri May 25 14:02:24 1984
CHISEL (an extension to C for VLSI layout) is now available for
distribution.  The best (only) documentation is my thesis,
available from Stanford Computer Science Dept as STAN-CS-82-959 or from
University Microfilms.

Until it gets to be a hassle, copies of CHISEL will be free.  Simply send
me a 2400' mag tape, and I'll return a 1600bpi tar format tape.

The main changes to CHISEL since the thesis are design-rule files to
provide technology independence, and separation of c-utilities from
VLSI-specific extensions.

Some parts of CHISEL are still not complete/correct.  In particular,
the automatic wiring routines have not been updated to use the improved
algorithm for determining wiring order, nor are they technology-independent.

						Kevin Karplus
						Computer Science Dept
						Cornell University
						Ithaca NY 14853
						(kevin@cornell)