Hi
having Kicad to support VLSI design would be great. As the tool is then maintained by the cern. So we can focus on other stuff. Also cern would have a benefit as they could design their asics using Kicad. The users of KiCad get to know our project and are able to design chips. A 3Win situation. Try to promote it from the view of cern benefiting from vlsi design capabilities.
That was exactly my reasoning behind suggesting to incorporate VLSI capabilities into KiCAD...
-lev