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From: nelson@byuadam (Brent Nelson)
Newsgroups: mod.vlsi
Subject: Place and route
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Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 13:43:38 EDT
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We are looking for a block place and route system.  We have tried using the
Berkeley-distributed BBL and have found it to be unacceptable for any real
work.  Can anyone give us pointers to a working system?  The types of circuits
we want to use it on have 6-20 large blocks or varying sizes (all are
rectangular) with ~20-100 nets.  

Appreciate any help we can get.


Brent Nelson
(801)378-6455


p.s. A standard cell router won't work for this application.