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From: gwu@clyde.ATT.COM (George Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted LSI simulator
Summary: UC Berkeley Tools have what you want.
Keywords: LSI design tool, LSI Simulator, timing verifyer
Message-ID: <22272@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 88 23:04:11 GMT
References: <258@kcvax.kyocera.JUNET>
Reply-To: gwu@clyde.UUCP (George Wu)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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In article <258@kcvax.kyocera.JUNET> z34@kcvax.kyocera.JUNET (Yutaka Matsumoto) writes:
>Hello there,
>
>I am now looking for a public domain LSI logic simulator
>or timing verifier for X-Window or IBM AT (EGA display).
>
>And I want to know what Magic is.
>Is Magic public domain?
>Available for X-Window?
>
>	Yutaka Matumoto	z34%kyocera.junet@uunet.uu.net
>-- 
>	    Yutaka Matumoto
>	z34@kcvax.kyocera.junet


     Try UC Berkeley's tools. They include Magic and several other tools,
including a simulator. What's Magic? It's a layout editor, ie. it lets you
draw the circuit sort of as the masks used in production. You draw a
rectangle of poly here, metal there, and a contact there, etc. It also
has it's own built-in incremental design rule checker, which is nice.

     Overall, it's not the best system around, but it's the best public
domain system around. Berkeley distributes it for a fee, but that's supposed
to cover shipping and handling. I believe it's $400. And of course, I don't
have the address of who to contact, though that question must be asked here
at least once a month.

						George J Wu
						rutgers!clyde!gwu