How can I get Alliance ?

Alliance VLSI CAD System is free software. Binaries, source code and cells libraries are freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). (Tas and Yagle are commercial tools, their source code is not available).

You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial designs without any fee. You are just required to mention : "Designed with Alliance CAD system"

The latest official release is 4.0.6. If you want to install it, please go to the official distribution folder and read the README file, but you might be interested in latest builds that are located in unstable distribution. You can also look at the development snapshot of our installation at LIP6 where you can find some more tools which are not part of the unstable distribution.

 

Internet

Postal mail

If you can not access to Internet you can also send us a blank CD-ROM. We will burn it for you. Please include a self-addressed envelope (we will pay the stamps).

This CD-ROM contains a local copy of the Alliance Web site and nearly all the Alliance ftp site. The ISO image of this CD-ROM is available at : ftp://asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/cdrom/.

Please, be aware that this service might take a long time.

 

Alliance Support
ASIM/LIP6 Campus CUVIER
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
4, Place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05,
France

 

How can I install Alliance ?

Please read the READMEs

If you want to install a binary package, you will have to download alliance.README and at least two files : one for the common files of Alliance (like cells library) and another containing binaries for your specific platform. Binaries for Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris and Windows 95/98/NT/2000 are available.

For more information, read this README.
For more information, read this README.win32.

If you want to install Alliance using the latest sources, you'll have to download the common AND the source package (you will need the "common" package to compile).

For more information, read this README.sources.

How can I get the latest sources ?

The directory cvstree contains a checked out copy of our cvs developpement tree. It will contain the latest bug correction but might not be stable : it may not even compile!

You can download recursively a whole directory by adding ".tgz" extension to the directory name.

eg:

 



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