Cadnetix launches three products at DES '85: Cadnetix Ltd, 25 St. Georges Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 3DT, UK. Tel: (0242) 571747
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-4485
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✦ Synopsis
Typical screen display from Mileron's ASIC design software
ASIC design software
Software for the design of application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) has been introduced in the UK by Mikron Microelectronics.
According to Mikron, th.e package can do the full automatic layout of a 600 gate array with 100 per cent utilization in 15 minutes on a VAX 11/750 computer. It takes 20 minutes to do a 1500 gate array on the same computer but only achieves 99.8 per cent utilization.
The Mikron package has been developed to aid the design and testing of sam/custom integrated circuits. According to Mikron it features schematic entry, netlist extraction, logic simulation, placement, routing, timing extraction, PG tape generation, fault simulation and test program generation.
The package is available for several hardware configurations including DEC's MicroVax and VAX systems, the IBM PC AT and Tektronix systems. The price varies according to the configuration.
The Bavarian State University has just bought the package for use both as a teaching tool and for contract work for the gate array design industry.