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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:51:49 EST
- From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <93007.005149LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: PC VLSI Design package
- Distribution: world
- References: <1993Jan5.170428.12546@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- <1ickg8INNgt0@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
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- In article <1ickg8INNgt0@sdl.Warren.MENTORG.COM>, garyg@warren.mentorg.com (Gary
- Gendel) says:
- >
- >for the hobbiest, however, we have been toying with releasing a restricted
- >version (no more than 500 elements) of out logic simulator, SIMIC for no
- >charge. This simulator has been claimed by many as the best gate/switch level
- >simulator available anywhere. The biggest hurdle is condensing our
- >300+ user manual into a small text file.
-
- Make money $$$ by sell the manuals... :)
-
- >Since SIMIC elements range from simple gates to large functional blocks (RAMS,
- >PLAS, etc) the 500 part limit should allow most hobby and educational designs ,
- >but prevent competition with our commercial product.
-
- Sound good. There is just one catch... What can people do with the
- package ? Would be nice to support Xilinx's SRAM based FPGA or Lattice's
- ispLSI or similar devices. (Can restrict to only a few chips.) These
- device can probably be programmed from parallel port. Anything thing else
- would require an expensive programmer which sort of restrict the market.
-
- >We just need to determine if there is enough interest to warrant this effort.
-
- Yeap. There is always a segment of the lower end that have been
- overlooked by the big companies. EPLD are kind of small... :(
-
- >Gary Gendel
- >VP Customer Relations
- >Genashor Corp
- >9 Piney Woods Drive
- >Belle Mead, NJ 08502
- >(908) 281-0164
- >
-
- K. C. Lee
- Elec. Eng. Grad. Student
-
- Would be nice to see a Commodore Amiga version too. :)
-