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I'm not sure if you are talking about MAGIC for the layout. That is what I used back in the day. I was surprised to find out later in my professional career tha
by lksajdl3lfkjasl 2y ago
I'm not sure if you are talking about MAGIC for the layout. That is what I used back in the day. I was surprised to find out later in my professional career that this was created by John Ousterhout, the same person who created Tcl/Tk.
It's really amazing to me how versatile these early hackers were.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoI am talking about MAGIC for layout, but there is a whole suite of tools from the same lab. IRSIM is a switch-level simulator that's also very useful, and there are a number of other tools for schematic capture, analog stuff, and a whole digital synthesis flow. It's all open-source, and if you're building a chip with an SCMOS process or another process with lambda-based design rules, it's still a pretty nice set of tools to use. Incidentally, if you're building open-source silicon, MAGIC is somewhere in that process, and I assume the Berkeley logic placer is still there even though the front-end is usually something else.
- musicale 2y agoOusterhout (and/or his students) has kept on hacking: Homa, Raft, RAMcloud... I also like his software design book. https://cs.stanford.edu/~ouster https://cs.stanford.edu/~ouster