5 Aug
2009
5 Aug
'09
5:39 p.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to see if I can recover several chip layouts from Atari
archives that I have from the AED (Advanced Engineering Division) at
Atari. They used a CAD IC Layout program called KIC and I'm trying to
see if anyone ever worked with that program or subsequent upgrades in
the 80's or 90's
KIC was developed at UC Berkeley, and was part of their VLSI tools suite.
The company I worked for back then supplied modified firmware for our
terminal to support their later IC layout program called MAGIC.
Have you found any CIF (Caltech Intermediate Format) files in the directories?
If you're lucky, they converted the polygons to CIF, which was a much more common
format.
It would be nice to find the Berkeley CAD Tools tapes. I have one, but it got
munched years ago and is incomplete.
There was also a set of tools called Chipmunk developed at Caltech that was interesting
since it was developed to run on HP Pascal Workstations. They made a bunch of local
mods to the system, which had its roots in UCSD Pascal.