Dear CAO-VLSI team, here at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science of the University of Padova, Italy, we have just downloaded the Alliance tools for Sparc station (binary version). We are considering to start using these tools for one or more classes on Digital VLSI design. We have some questions (maybe stupid, but let's try) about installation and future developments: 1) we have expanded the tarfile containing the binaries for sparc in a directory /alliance, just below the root /; we also set up a bin and man search path; we started the addaccu tutorial but we had problems with genlib, which seems not able to find the include-file directory (maybe we forgot an environment variable?) 2) is motif required in order to run graal and the other X-dependent tools? Now invoking graal we get a bunch of errors about colors not being in the X11 database; 3) is there any provision to expand alligator in order to support xilinx fpga families other than X3000, and to support altera epld's? I thank you in advance for any help and suggestions you can give me. Best Regards Andrea Neviani ========================================= Andrea Neviani Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica Universita' di Padova Via Gradenigo 6A I-35131 Padova, Italy Tel: (+39) 49 827 7659/64 Fax: (+39) 49 827 7699 E-mail: andrea@elena.dei.unipd.it