Hi Jecel, hi all. I git cloned the tool and try to build it. one needs to cd to alliance/src and run autostuff which is a shell script to generate automake files. Then do export ALLIANCE_TOP=/opt/alliance ./configure --prefix=$ALLIANCE_TOP gmake install
as written in alliance/src/README
and ... you need libmotif-devel libs installed like in electric, as both tools are quite old :-) But motif is ok, looks a bit vintage.
Cheers,
Ludwig
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:53 PM ludwig jaffe ludwig.jaffe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jecel,
thanks for your input the Alliance tools look funny unixish and also quite complete, so why not using them. Also the page mentions a process library. The ebook on the tools gives a good overview, thanks! http://www.cc.toin.ac.jp/sc/palacios/openbook/vlsie.pdf
The home page of Alliance is here: https://www-soc.lip6.fr/equipe-cian/logiciels/alliance/
The source is there: git clone it. https://www-soc.lip6.fr/git/alliance.git
Thanks,
Ludwig
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:10 PM Jecel Assumpcao Jr. jecel@merlintec.com wrote:
Thanks, Luke, for mentioning Alliance. I had forgotten about it, but now have read this book which has a nice example of using it:
http://www.cc.toin.ac.jp/sc/palacios/openbook/vlsie.pdf
The typical unix command line style reminds me of the old Berkeley tools. I am sure this makes makefile fans very happy (just as vi-like commands in Magic is "intuitive" to some people).
This list of free VLSI tools seems reasonably complete:
http://www.vlsiacademy.org/open-source-cad-tools.html
Besides standard cells, I have studied other design methods in the past such as PPL (Path Programmable Logic from the University of Utah) or Gate Matrix from Bell Labs.
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=74714 http://cdmbuntu.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uspace/id/1351 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1156074
I don't currently have access to ACM and IEEE online stuff, but these references might be useful to some people. These are not open source tools, however. I actually bought a copy of the PPL tools back in 1990 but can't use them due to a silly protection scheme. But the ideas might be worth looking at.
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