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Subject: CIF File Format
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Date: Tue, 14-Apr-87 16:58:46 EST
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In response to the request from Marc Fleischmann for the format of
a CIF file, the best reference that I have found is A Guide to LSI
Implementation by Robert W. Hon and Carlo H. Sequin, second edition,
SSl-79-7 January 1980, published by XEROX Palo Alto Research Center,
3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto CA 94304.  This book has a full
chapter titled "A CIF Primer".  Another source of information on CIF
is Introduction to VLSI Systems by Mead and Conway, 1980, published
by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.  See pages 115-127.

Some design systems like Magic can write CIF and read CIF that is in the
proper format.  I have just finished writing patches to the MacPitts silicon
compiler and the L5 layout language from MIT that produce CIF that can be
read by Magic.

Jim Harmon

harmon@nps-cs.arpa