MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS NEWS




FILENUMBER: 604
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ocean sea-of-gates software synthesis
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DATE: april 1994
TITLE: OCEAN, Public-Domain Sea-of-Gates Software


OCEAN, Public-Domain Sea-of-Gates Software

(Contributed by Don Bouldin of the University of Tennessee)

The Electronic Engineering group at Delft University of Technology 
has developed OCEAN, a sea-of-gates design system.
OCEAN is a comprehensive chip design package which includes a 
full set of powerful tools for
the synthesis and verification of semi-custom sea-of-gates and 
gate-array chips, and covers the
back-end of the design trajectory: from circuit level, 
down to layout and a working chip.


The OCEAN System features: 

 a short learning curve making it suitable for design courses. 

 hierarchical (full-custom-like) layout style on sea-of-gates. 

 powerful tools for placement, routing, simulation and extraction. 

 any combination of automatic and interactive manual layout. 

 capability to handle even the largest designs. 

 easy installation. 

 three sea-of-gates images with libraries and a 200,000 transistor sea-of-gates chip. 

 easy adaptability to arbitrary images with any number of layers. 

 elaborate users manual with hands-on tutorials. 

 the robustness of a 'combat-proven' application, used by hundreds of people. 

OCEAN is available for free via anonymous ftp from donau.et.tudelft.nl
in directory pub/ocean. 

This includes: 

 executables for HP, SUN, and 386/486 PC machines 

 source code (C/C++) of all tools 

 cell libraries for 3 different semi-custom images 

 full documentation with hands-on tutorial examples 

 conversion tools for SIS, Cadence. 

For additional information, Click here.

For additional information, contact: 

   Patrick Groeneveld
   Electronic Engineering Group 
   Electrical Engineering Faculty
   Delft University of Technology
   Mekelweg 4
   2628 CD   Delft
   The Netherlands
   TEL: +31-15786240  
   FAX: +31-15786190
   ocean@donau.et.tudelft.nl 
   patrick@donau.et.tudelft.nl

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