Sory for replying so late... Mrs. Shaila Subbaraman (94407301) wrote: I am a Ph. D. student on deputation to IIT. Bombay from one of the engineering colleges in Maharashtra, India. My college is interested in procuring the VHDL based s/w such as ALLIANCE for synthesis of digital ckts. I would like to know the following. 1. What is the total memory requirement for the complete ALLIANCE s/w? VLSI design memory hungry. Some process can take up to 400Mb!! A minimum of 32Mb is required 2. How much hard-disk memory is required to load and work on ALLIANCE? about 50Mb, depending on what you install (say from 40Mb to 150Mb (Multi-arch)) 3. Whai is RAM requirement? A minimum of 32Mb is required + 64Mb swap 4. If you can ftp the s/w to IIT.,Bombay, perhaps I can copy it onto a tape and hand over to my college. ( My college at present is not having internet facility; however expected very shortly.) Alliance 3.2 distrib should be available next week, Please, contact me again 5. Is ALLIANCE s/w compatible with UNIX? yes -- Sincerely, Olivier. ==================================================================== Olivier SIROL Alliance Team ASIM/LIP6/UPMC Coul. 55-65, 2e etg, Bur. 213 75252 Paris Cedex 05 mailto:Olivier.Sirol@lip6.fr Tel: (33/0) 1.44.27.30.43 http://www.ecoledoc.lip6.fr/~sirol Fax: (33/0) 1.44.27.72.80 ===================== Alliance on the WWW ========================== - Home page : http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/ - Ftp site : ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/lip6/softs/alliance/ - Support and bug report (Mailing-list archive) : http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/mail/alliance-support/ - Discussions about using Alliance tools (Mailing-list archive) : http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/mail/alliance-users/ ====================================================================