Electric

Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including:

• Custom IC layout (ASICs)
• Schematic drawing
• Hardware description language specifications
• Electro-mechanical hybrid layout

• Design rule checking (3 options)
• Simulation and simulation interface (8 options)
• PLA generation (2 options)
• Compaction
• Compensation
• Routing (4 options)
• VHDL compilation
• Silicon compilation
• Network consistency checking

• MOS (6 CMOS variations, 1 nMOS variation)
• Bipolar and BiCMOS
• Schematics and printed circuits
• Digital filters, Temporal logic
• Artwork

• CIF I/O
• GDS I/O
• VHDL I/O
• DXF I/O
• PostScript, HPGL, and QuickDraw output

• UNIX
• Macintosh
• Windows

Read the technical specifications for Electric.

Read the history of Electric.

Find out more from the people who wrote Electric.

Read the online user's manual, including the installation guides for UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows.

Read Steven Rubin's textbook on CAD tools, specifically the chapter on Electric.

Download the latest version of Electric from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/electric/ or any of the many mirrors.

Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to gnu@gnu.org. There are also other ways to contact the FSF.

Please send comments on these web pages to webmasters@www.gnu.org, send other questions to gnu@gnu.org.

Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA

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Updated: 25 Jan 1999 smr