# Alliance VLSI CAD System
# Copyright (C) 1990, 2000 ASIM/LIP6/UPMC
#
# Home page : http://www-asim.lip6.fr/alliance/
# E-mail support : mailto:alliance-support@asim.lip6.fr
# ftp site : ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/
#
# $Id: README,v 1.4 2000/01/20 18:17:01 czo Exp $
# Alliance
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"Alliance VLSI CAD System" is free Software.
Alliance is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License
GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).
You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial
designs without any fee. You are just required to mention :
" Designed with Alliance CAD system,
Copyright (C) 1991, 2000 Université Pierre et Marie Curie"
You can get Alliance via anonymous FTP from ftp.lip6.fr
ftp://ftp-asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/
# Downloading
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You will have to download at least two files : one for the common files
of Alliance (like cells library) and another containing binaries for
your specific platform. As for now, only Linux, SunOS, Solaris and
FreeBSD are available. A Windows 95/NT release should be out this
year.
alliance-X.XX-common.tar.gz Files common to each platform *required*
alliance-X.XX-i386-linux-Y.YY.tar.gz Binaries Linux_elf
alliance-X.XX-sparc-sunos-Y.YY.tar.gz Binaries SunOS
alliance-X.XX-sparc-solaris-Y.YY.tar.gz Binaries Solaris
where X.XX is the Alliance version number (e.g.: 3.2 for Alliance 3.2)
and Y.YY is the OS version number (e.g.: 4.1.4 for SunOS 4.1.4)
# Installation :
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You *don't* need to be root to install Alliance in a directory you *own*
In the example above I assume you have logged as root
1/ cd to the directory where you want to install Alliance
> cd /usr/local
2/ Unpack the common package
> gunzip -c alliance-X.XX-common.tgz | tar -xf -
3/ Unpack one of the platform specific package
> gunzip -c alliance-X.XX-linux-Y.YY.tgz | tar -xf -
4/ cd to alliance/share/etc and run the 'configure' script
(This is the *only* script you need to run)
> cd alliance/share/etc
> ./configure
If you install Alliance on different platforms you'll
need to run the 'configure' script on each of them.
# Usage :
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Each user has to source alc_env.[c]sh to set Alliance environment
variables to be able to run the Alliance tools.
in sh > . [where you have installed Alliance]/alliance/share/etc/alc_env.sh
in csh > source [where you have installed Alliance]/alliance/share/etc/alc_env.csh
This sets various default environment variables which could be changed by user
later (Like MBK_OUT_LO to set the netlist output file format).
If you are a SysAdmin, you should consider linking these scripts in
the system's profile (e.g.: /etc/profile.d/ on Linux) so that configuration
would be done at user login.
If you encounter problems, check the value of these variables in alc_env.[c]sh
$ALLIANCE_OS : actually Linux
or SunOS
or Solaris
$ALLIANCE_TOP : actually [where you have installed Alliance]/alliance/archi/Linux
or [where you have installed Alliance]/alliance/archi/SunOS
or [where you have installed Alliance]/alliance/archi/Solaris
That's all :-)
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