Ocean OCEAN is a comprehensive chip design package. 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: Available for free, including all source code. Short learning curve making it suitable for student 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. OCEAN can handle even the largest designs. Running on popular HP, Sun and 386/486 PC machines, easy installation. Includes three sea-of-gates images with libraries and a 200.000 transistor sea-of-gates chip. Can be easily adapted to arbitrary images with any number of layers. Interface programs for other tools and systems (SIS, cadence, etc.) Elaborate users manual with hands-on tutorials. Robust and 'combat-proven', used by hundreds of people.

Current Version:   August 1996 License Type:   GPL

Home Site: http://cas.et.tudelft.nl/software/ocean/ Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   Yes, ftp://donau.et.tudelft.nl/pub/ocean Targeted Platforms: HP, Sun, SGI, PC/Linux Software/Hardware Requirements: X11R3 or up, 30MB disk space.

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