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<h1><a name="1033512">About This Manual</a></h1>
<p><a name="1034303">This document provides information on new and changed features for version 5.8 of the Cadence</a><font color="#000000"><sup>&#174;</sup></font> Library Exchange Format (LEF) and Design Exchange Format (DEF) integrated circuit description languages.</p>
<h2><a name="1034334">How This Document Is Organized</a></h2>
<p><a name="1034335">This </a><font color="#000000"><em>What's New</em></font> document is organized into the following chapters:</p>
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<blockquote><a name="1034572">This chapter describes features that were added or changed since version 5.7 of LEF and DEF.</a></blockquote>
<blockquote><a name="1034564">New features are those that introduce new functionality into LEF and DEF. Any enhancements made to existing statements to support a new feature are also described in this chapter. </a></blockquote>
<h2><a name="1034567">Related Documents</a></h2>
<p><a name="1034351">The following documents provide detailed information about LEF and DEF, and the LEF and DEF application programming interfaces.</a></p>
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<td><a href="../lefdefref/lefdefrefTOC.html" target="external_window" name="1034402"><font color="#0000ff"><u><em>LEF&#47;DEF Language Reference</em></u></font></a><font color="#000000"><em> </em></font></td>
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