I’m doing a history of open source ASIC. I’d love ...
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Rob Taylor
05/03/2022, 9:30 AMI’m doing a history of open source ASIC. I’d love to hear about anything pre 2000's that folk can think of :)
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Harald Pretl
05/03/2022, 10:58 AMSPICE? 1973, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE
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Borivoje Nikolic
05/03/2022, 3:34 PMBorivoje Nikolic
05/03/2022, 3:34 PMScalable design rules (SCMOS)
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Matt Liberty
05/03/2022, 5:11 PMmagic
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Jecel Assumpção Jr
05/03/2022, 5:50 PMElectric (1983) was commercial but became open source in 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_(software)
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Borivoje Nikolic
05/03/2022, 10:18 PMHercules, dracula,...
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Rob Taylor
05/04/2022, 9:16 AMThank you all!
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Tobias Strauch
05/05/2022, 4:58 PMAre you looking for open source ASICs or open source EDA tools ? Famous EDA tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_heuristic_logic_minimizer