From: patrick@donau.et.tudelft.nl (Patrick Groeneveld)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: a chip design system for Linux: OCEAN
Date: 15 Apr 1993 15:17:05 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Message-ID: <1qju9h$73c@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>

                              O C E A N : 
 
        T H E   I C   D E S I G N  S Y S T E M   F O R   L I N U X


OCEAN is a comprehensive chip design package which 
was developed at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. It 
includes a full set of powerful tools for the synthesis and verification 
of semi-custom sea-of-gates and gate-array chips.  OCEAN covers the 
back-end of the design trajectory: from circuit level, down to layout 
and a working chip. In a nutshell, OCEAN has the following features:

      + 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.
      + Short learning curve making it suitable for student design courses.
      + Available for free, including all source code.
      + Running on popular Linux PC, HP and Sun machines, easy installation.
      + Includes three sea-of-gates images with libraries and template chip.
      + Can be easily adapted to arbitrary images with any number of layers.
      + Interface programs for other tools and systems (SIS, cadence, etc.)
      + Robust and 'combat-proven', used by hundreds of people.


You can retrieve OCEAN and additional documentation via:

   anonymous ftp:   donau.et.tudelft.nl -  directory pub/ocean
   gopher:          olt.et.tudelft.nl (port 70) or use the path
                     World --> Europe --> Netherlands -->
		     Delft University of Technology Electronic Engineering -->
		     Research activities -->
		     The OCEAN sea-of-gates Design System






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