Novelty in interface and implementation: |Magic on the macintosh and powerpc

Abstract

The complexity and capability of VLSI technology is incresing day by while design techniques still seem to be inadequate to overcome all the of VLSI. The market potentail of design is large but the compatition and changing consumer demands, specially with te high equipment requirements of VLSI design tools still lead VLSI technology into some limitations.The main aim of this project is to bring one of the most advanced VLSI design systems to the deskop, adding further functionaly andease of use. Namely, the project is the implementation of "magic', an interactive system for creating VLSI circuit layouts, on PC range computers. The program is re-implemented on the Macintosh computers considering the userinterface advantages of the MacOS and the computational advantages of the RISC technology brought to the deskop by PwerPC computers. The implementation was carried out using C++ taking advantage of the existing C sources of Magic.