>From what the development page, Herb is a fork from the Alliance tool source. The Alliance tool suite is used for digital physical synthesis ie automatic layout generation from HDL source. Currently, the tool is part of the Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) distribution and is maintained for bug fixes (I haven't seen new features).
Electric complements the Alliance tool chain (and also Herb). Electric is for custom & analog layout, while Alliance is for standard cell based synthesis. So, dont worry, it's worth learning both. The details may be off-topic on a LUG, you can contact me directly for more details. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
