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From: waters@dover.uucp (Mike Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: CIF to GDS2 Conversion
Summary: Alternate idea
Keywords: CIF, GDS2, Calma, VLSI, EDIF
Message-ID: <521@dover.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 88 15:25:30 GMT
References: <215@edson.UUCP>
Reply-To: waters@dover.UUCP (Mike Waters)
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Organization: Motorola CAD Mesa, AZ {dover}
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In article <215@edson.UUCP> robin@edson.UUCP (Robin Turner) writes:
>Does anyone have any information regarding public (or private)
>domain software for converting VLSI designs from CIF to GDS2
>format and vice versa?
>
>Please reply directly to:  robin@edson@alberta.ca

I don't know of any direct conversion software - public domain OR
commercial, but there are a number of CIF to EDIF and EDIF to GDS2
converters that have been written. The net result should be the same.

EDIF was created to solve just that kind of translation problem.

-- 
Mike Waters                 (for your EDIFication)
Motorola SMART CAD Group - EDIF (ANSI/EIA std. 548) support
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          OR   moto@cad.Berkley.EDU