Free Chip Estimation Tool

A free design automation tool for chip estimation has been developed by Giga Scale IC, Inc. The tool named "InCyte" estimates IC die size, power, leakage, yield, and cost, enabling designers to visualize both the technical and economic impacts of their design specification. The tool's rapid "what-if" analysis makes it easy for designers to visualize tradeoffs between key design metrics, and across technology nodes and process variants. Users can generate accurate and optimized chip estimates at the architectural stage of the design process, resulting in significantly shorter design times and lower design costs.

Shareware VLSI CAD/CAE/EDA Software!

Checkout our Shareware VLSI CAD/CAE/EDA Software! section below to benefit from the numerous tools the Academic community has to offer. We will be updating as quite often as possible as we find more tools. Please comment to share the links you have found that will be of interest here. We really appreciate your support.

Updated to get the links here in this same post!!!

• Alliance
• APLAC - A flexible analog circuit simulation and design tool!
• Berkeley's Design Technology Warehouse
• Cirrus: CAD System for Rtl Design, Circuit Design, Tool integration
• Disydent: Digital system design environment
• Event Controlled Systems Project
• Free HDL: A project to develop a free, open source, GPL'ed VHDL simulator for Linux!
• GdsDump
• iEDISON3: Statistical design and optimization of circuits
• ILLIADS2: Fast Timing Simulator for MOS VLSI Circuits
• Magic Layout System
• MISTIC TCAD: Michigan Synthesis Tools for IC's
• Mosis: Electric
• Nemesis: A program that simulates and generates test patterns for circuits with a variety of different types of faults
• p2m : A GIMP plug-in for converting image files into formats that are compatible with integrated circuit and printed circuit board layout tools!
• POSE: Power Optimization and Synthesis Environment
• ProperCAD: Parallel algorithms for VLSI CAD applications
• Research in VLSI Circuit Testing, Verification, and Diagnosis
• SPICECAD: The Schematic Entry for SPICE3,HSPICE and TITAN under X11 R5/R6
• Stanford TCAD: Development of Computer-Aided Design for more than two decades!
• Static Free Soft
• The Chipmunk System
• The Olympus synthesis system (More info needed!)
• XRLCAD -- A C++ library for manipulating Calma (GDS) and CIF libraries