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Hi Folks,

triggered by Jeff Solomon's paper on VLSI layout rendering at
DAC 2001 and some e-mail exchange with Igor Markov about university
layout tools I wanted to give magic a try.

I've been using cell3/sedsm/Aquarius/Apollo/Encounter over the
last 6 years and wrote a gds/lef/def viewer/converter.

After hunting the web for a while and not beeing able to compile
magic 6.5.1, I finally found the Magic 7.1 page and off I went.

SunOS sparky 5.7 Generic_106541-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1

  gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
  GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1)

compiled magic just fine, on Suse-Linux 7.1 I had to change lbsd to
lbsd-compat and exclude the READLINE since the "termcap" library was
missing (if anybody is interested I can get the correct name of the
missing library) on my Suse installation.

On both platforms I was not able get magic to accept my keystrokes.
Especially not "h" for "help". Any hint's ? See attached session log.


With regard to gds2 support, are there some "decent" sized examples
available to get a feeling for magic's read/write/display capabilities ?
Jeff mentioned the "Flash" chip in his paper, is this one available ?

What kind of gds2 sizes will magic be able to handle ? I have access
to a bunsh of Philips library gds'es and TSMC 0.35 and TSMC 0.18
I have not checked the current-
Any more pointers to additional docu ?


Best Regards

Stefan

PS: I'm not on the mailing list yet, please reply to me directly.

sparky:thiede> magic

Magic 7.1 - Compiled on Thu Jul 19 19:48:29 PDT 2001.
CAD_HOME sets "~cad" to "/proj/layout/usr/thiede/magic_install".
flock_list directory created.
Error opening flock_list/link.

Using technology "scmos", version 8.2.8.
MOSIS Scalable CMOS Technology for Standard Rules
Using PseudoColor, VisualID 0x20 depth 8
Unable to allocate 7 planes in default colormap; making a new one.
[Read-in of command file aborted]
Unknown macro or short command: 'XK_h'
Unknown macro or short command: 'XK_j'
Unknown macro or short command: 'XK_k'


w for write
o for open
l for label 

seem to work.

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