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Subject: 1985 VLSI Tools Distribution
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 17:41:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 17:41:27 1985
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From: ouster@ucbkim (John Ousterhout)

We've recently made available a new distribution of VLSI tools.
They include:  Magic, a new layout editor with a continuous
design-rule checker, routing tools, and an incremental and
hierarchical circuit extractor (a future release will also include
plowing, but it isn't ready for this release);  Mpack, a Magic
version of the Tpack module-generation system;  a host of PLA
tools developed by Profs. Newton and Sangiovanni-Vincentelli,
including Espresso, Pleasure, and Panda, an NMOS/CMOS version of
Chris Terman's ESIM program; the latest version of the timing
analysis program Crystal, which now handles CMOS and has the
slope-based timing models; an NMOS Multibus design frame by
Gaetano Borriello; and a number of other tools.

This set of tools runs on VAXes (only AED displays are supported)
or on Sun workstations with the SunColor option (the 160 isn't
supported yet).  We recommend the Sun workstation (but be sure
to get 4 Mbytes of memory).

If you've gotten the 1983 VLSI Tools set and you are a university,
you can get the 1985 set by the same mechanism:  send a tape and
letter of non-redistrution to

		John Ousterhout
		Computer Science Division
		Department of EECS
		University of California
		Berkeley, CA  94720

If you're not a university, or you aren't sure about how to word
the letter of non-redistribution, send me your U.S. mailing address
(my electronic address is ousterhout@berkeley.ARPA) and I'll send
you an information sheet about the tape.