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Abstract

The Alliance package is a complete set of CAD tools for the specification, design and validation of digital VLSI circuits. Beside the tools, Alliance includes also a set of cell libraries, from standard cells for automatic place and route tools, to custom block generators to be used in high performance circuits. This package is used in more than 250 universities worldwide.

Each Alliance tool can operate as a standalone program as well as a part of the complete design framework. After introducing briefly the design methodology, we outline the functionnality of the tools. Experiemental results conclude the presentation.

Alliance runs on any Unix system and has been recently ported to Windows NT. It is freely available on ftp, and includes binaries, leaf cells libraries, on-line documentation, and tutorials.



 



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