alliance-support '1998
Re: Alliance VLSI design system


Czo [Olivier Sirol] (Olivier.Sirol@asim.lip6.fr)
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 17:22:29 +0100

Richard Stallman wrote: > > Our webmaster will take care of adding the link; meanwhile, > could you email me a brief description of Alliance? I'd > like to know something about it. You can find some information about Alliance at : http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/ What is Alliance? 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. Alliance runs on any Unix system. It is freely available on ftp, and includes binaries, leaf cells libraries, on-line documentation, and tutorials. Source code is available under the GNU Public License (L)GPL v2 at ftp://asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/ The Alliance package is the result of a ten years effort spent at the ASIM Lab of LIP6 (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6) -- formerly MASI Laboratory -- of the Pierre et Marie Curie University (UPMC), in Paris. During these years, our major goal was to provide our undergraduate and graduate students with a complete CAD framework, designed to assist them in digital VLSI CMOS course. The Architecture team at MASI focuses its activity on two key issues: computer architectures using high complexity ASICs, and innovative CAD tools for VLSI design. Strong interaction exists between the people working on computer architectures and the one working on CAD tools. The main CAD action aims at fulfilling both the needs of experienced designers by providing practical answers to state-of-the-art problems (logic synthesis, procedural generation, layout verification, test and interoperability), and novice designers, by providing a simple and consistent set of tools. Our VLSI design flow is therefore based on both advanced CAD tools that are not available within commercial CAD systems, such as functional abstraction or static timing analysis, and standard design/validation tools. For any questions please mail to : For any questions please mail to : alliance-support@lip6.fr. -- Thanks for your interest in Alliance. Sincerely, Olivier Sirol. ==================================================================== Olivier SIROL Alliance Team ASIM/LIP6/UPMC Coul. 55-65, 2e etg, Bur. 204 75252 Paris Cedex 05 mailto:alliance-support@asim.lip6.fr Tel: +33 1 44 27 53 24 http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/ Fax: +33 1 44 27 72 80 ====================================================================

 



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