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Hello Dr. Stine,

What stops you from making them available beyond education?  Your
university's "technology transfer" legal dept?   You say there may be
some way to GPL them?  Another EE design engineer and I have talked
about starting a web site for std cells that are open source licensed so
as to support paying consultant work by us and others/anyone to quickly
add the "specials" a customer needs beyond the basics, so they can have
a library available for feasibility studies at low cost, and also for
the same benefit the software community does open source: testing,
testing, testing.   Test, test, test seems to be the risk reduction
mantra of the super high cost masks era we are in now as silicon
microelectronics has evolved.  Do you and your students have interest in
this kind of thing?

How about other Magic users?

John Griessen
Austin TX

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 15:17, James E. Stine wrote:
> We just developed some cells for Magic and Synopsys/SE for AMI 0.5um and
> TSMC 0.25/0.18.  

>  they are only available to .edu URL's and academic use,

> International conference on Microelectronic
> System Education (MSE03 --http://www.mseconference.org) which is held in
> conjunction with DAC this   year in Anaheim, CA.  Right now, we only have
> myself and a graduate student supporting it

> James E. Stine, Jr.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> Illinois Institute of Technology

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