Thanks, Luke, for mentioning Alliance. I had forgotten about it, but now have read this book which has a nice example of using it:
An existance proof for Alliance documentation! Thanks for dredging this up!
Honestly, I have never seen Alliance documentation before. This is more of a tutorial than actual proguram documentation, but it does the job.
Slightly discouraging is the line that the (NERO) router can handle "up to 4K gates". Another discouraging line is "Real pads are specific to a foundry and must be designed to fit to those of Alliance". The rate at which I came up with discouraging lines by randomly perusing the document was also discouraging. . .
Regards, Tim
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