Hi, I wasn't expecting that answer :) ! I really had a glimmer of hope when you mentioned Herb - about an industrial class VLSI design entry app. Electric is actually one such app. It is copyrighted by Sun microsystems & Static Free Software. It is also directly affiliated to FSF. Sun has an entire development team employed for it. The system can be used for VLSI design entry through schematic layout, or HDLs (VHDL or Verilog). It can even convert between design units (HDL to layout and back)! It is also able to do simulations (haven't figured out yet how that is done).
All this really paints a rosy picture of Free VLSI design tools. But when you look at the Opencores site (site for developing 'free' IP cores), you really get a picture of the state of affairs: http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/opencores/tools Thats why I was so interested in this post. Anyways, I hope that the situation will change soon. I am looking forward to the app that will become the gimp of VLSI tools. So please do keep me posted if you 'stumble upon' new information like this in the future ;-). And, thanks for this news (on Herb) too. I will be keeping a tab on this project from now on. Regards, Gokul Das --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
