Hi,
I see you're aware of Magic already, but the link you gave is
*ancient* history. :)
This is the home of magic-7.1, the stable distribution:
http://vlsi.cornell.edu/magic/
This is the home of magic-7.3, the current development version, maintained
by Tim Edwards:
http://opencircuitdesign.com/magic/index.html
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/magic/magic7_3.html
(The second link is the old home of 7.3.)
There's also a mailing-list for magic:
http://vlsi.cornell.edu/mailman/listinfo/magic-dev
Magic (open-source) is capable of reading/writing CIF and
Calma/GDS, so that pretty much answers your question. :)
Some notes:
The stable release (7.1) has been inactive for about 2 years (oh,
the dust!), and the distribution is likely to have compiling issues with
newer compilers and platforms. There are some revisions in CVS which
haven't made it into the next official release yet. More details on this
(and patch) can be found at:
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/sw/magic-7.1-osx.html
I'll try to work with the developers on making one final, end-of-life
stable release of 7.1.
The 7.3 series is constantly being developed and maintained.
Both versions have been used to produce large-scale circuits.
> Are there any free/open-source options out there to convert
> CIF (Caltech Intermediate Format) files into GDS-II databases ?
> Google didn't reveal any, so I was hoping someone would know
> on this list.
>
> BTW: any reason why Magic [1] (the layout tool) isn't listed
> and/or mentioned in the tools section on geda.seul.org ?
> [1] http://research.compaq.com/wrl/projects/magic/magic.html
Happy layout!
David Fang
Computer Systems Laboratory
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cornell University
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
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