Using The Electric VLSI Design System

Product Description

This is the user’s manual for the Electric VLSI Design System, an open-source package for designing integrated circuit chips. Electric has many synthesis and analysis tools for circuit design. The system offers IC layout, schematics, and textual hardware description languages. It is free and available from www.staticfreesoft.com.

About the Author

Steven M. Rubin has been developing the Electric VLSI Design System since 1983. He received his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University and has done research at Bell Labs, Schlumberger, Apple, Interval, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. Specializing in visually-oriented computing, his research has spanned computer vision, graphics, and CAD. Steve was also the lead singer of “Severe Tire Damage”, the first band to perform live on the Internet.