About OCEAN: the sea-of-gates design system -------------------------------------------
+ Available for free, including all source code. + Short learning curve making it suitable for student design courses. + Hierarchical (full-custom-like) layout style on sea-of-gates. + Powerful tools for placement, routing, simulation and extraction. + Any combination of automatic and interactive manual layout. + OCEAN can handle even the largest designs. + Running on popular HP, Sun and 386/486 PC machines, easy installation. + Includes three sea-of-gates images with libraries and a 200,000 transistor sea-of-gates chip. + Can be easily adapted to arbitrary images with any number of layers. + Interface programs for other tools and systems (SIS, cadence, etc.) + Robust and 'combat-proven', used by hundreds of people.How to retrieve OCEAN and additional documentation? ---------------------------------------------------
The entire OCEAN system is available for free via anonymous ftp, gopher or on tape. A powerful installation script is included, so you can get started very quickly without hacking up the code. You can retrieve OCEAN and additional documentation via:
anonymous ftp: <URL:ftp:donau.et.tudelft.nl:pub/ocean>
gopher: olt.et.tudelft.nl (port 70) or use the path
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Delft University of Technology Electronic Engineering
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The OCEAN sea-of-gates Design System
Patrick Groeneveld or Paul Stravers Electronic Engineering Group, Electrical Engineering Faculty Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands Phone: +31-15786240 Fax: +31-15786190 Email: ocean@donau.et.tudelft.nl
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