Re: gEDA-user: Free logic optimization software

[Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh.goorah@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jorge Juan wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>   I teach a basic digital circuit design curse at the university for
>   first-year students. I plan to incorporate HDL, behavioral
>   descriptions, simulation and logic optimization next year.
>   I find Icarus Verilog plus gtkwave and the rest of GEDA tools ideal
>   for the task, but cant find a way to do logic optimization within the
>   geda framework. The icarus 0.8.x README tells logic optimization can
>   be enabled through the "-F" option, but it is not documented in the
>   man page. Logic synthesis to edif works fine but optimization is not
>   applied.
>   Some simple optimization targeting basic logic (AND, OR, NOT) would be
>   ideal for me. Integration in Icarus would be perfect.
>   Do you know of available options within geda or free software.
>   Thanks.

Hello Jorge,

There is  espresso-ab. Actually it is also said that Synopsys and
Cadence have some tools based from espresso.

http://code.google.com/p/eqntott/


cheers,
Chitlesh
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