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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
Subject: Re: CAD tools
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Date: 31 Jan 89 23:11:54 GMT
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In article <2758@rti.UUCP> tassos@rti.UUCP (Tassos Markas) writes:
>I am looking for synthesis tools that translate a circuit description given
>in ESPRESSO format (or something similar) to a minimized network of generic 
>gates (optimum results are not expected).

Both the MIS-II (UC Berkeley) and BOLD (U Colo Boulder) software can do this,
as can the commercial program Design Compiler from Synopsys.

>I'd like also to ... be able to define a database of the available gates
>(standard cells).

All the above programs allow this.

One CAVEAT: there are several slightly different versions of Espresso in
the world, so you may have to be willing to alter your input files a little.

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com