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From: mikel@mcnc.org (Michael J. Lorenzetti)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Latest Vivid features?
Message-ID: <1175@speedy.mcnc.org>
Date: 21 Apr 89 18:29:12 GMT
References: <8904202001.AA03661@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <8904202001.AA03661@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu> gld@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Gary L Dare) writes:
>I've just started working with VIVID 1.3 from MCNC and would like to
>import .CIF files for editing and further work.  It seems that my
>version can only read .CIF into a compacted mask-layout display via
>LLAMA.  Are there any utilities that can take a LLAMA display and
>translate it into ABCD (A Better Circuit Description)?
>
>gld

We considered the idea of an "uncompactor" to convert masks layouts
(CIF or LLAMA) to symbolic layouts (ABCD). This would allow
designs done for one process to be converted to another process
by recompacting the symbolic version using a new set of rules.   
Unfortunately, due to "conflicting priorities", we never got around 
to implementing it here at MCNC.

I, too, would be interested in knowing if others have done this
and, if so, how it worked out in practice.