7 Aug
2009
7 Aug
'09
8:19 a.m.
Hi Al,
There are lots of CIF files. Besides KIC there are directories
with NEWKIC and PACII as well. This is the User Data backup from a
VAX 750, so I am uncertain if the VAX was running Unix or VMS... I know
many of the VAX in this particular area at Atari did have Unix on them
though.
Curt
Al Kossow wrote:
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.