OCEAN

The OCEAN sea-of-gates design system

Short Description

A comprehensive sea-of-gates chip design package.

Contact

Patrick Groeneveld, Paul Stravers, Irek Karkowski
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Systems and Circuits Group
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD Delft
The Netherlands

phone: +31-(0)15 278 62 80
fax: +31-(0)15 278 61 90
email: ocean@cas.et.tudelft.nl

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OCEAN

Description

OCEAN is a comprehensive chip design package which was developed at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. It includes a full set of powerful tools for the synthesis and verification of semi-custom sea-of-gates and gate-array chips. OCEAN covers the back-end of the design trajectory: from circuit level, down to layout and a working chip. In a nutshell, OCEAN has the following features:

• Available for free, including all source code.
• Short learning curve making it suitable for student design courses.
• Hierarchical (full-custom-like) layout style on sea-of-gates.
• Powerful tools for placement, routing, simulation and extraction.
• Any combination of automatic and interactive manual layout.
• OCEAN can handle even the largest designs.
• Running on popular HP, Sun and 386/486 PC machines, easy installation.
• Includes three sea-of-gates images with libraries and a 200.000 transistor sea-of-gates chip.
• Can be easily adapted to arbitrary images with any number of layers.
• Interface programs for other tools and systems (SIS, cadence, etc.).
• Elaborate users manual with hands-on tutorials.
• Robust and 'combat-proven', used by hundreds of people.