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I'm not sure if you are talking about MAGIC for the layout. That is what I used back in the day. I was surprised to find out later in my professional career that this was created by John Ousterhout, the same person who created Tcl/Tk.

It's really amazing to me how versatile these early hackers were.

[pclmulqdq]

I am talking about MAGIC for layout, but there is a whole suite of tools from the same lab. IRSIM is a switch-level simulator that's also very useful, and there are a number of other tools for schematic capture, analog stuff, and a whole digital synthesis flow.

It's all open-source, and if you're building a chip with an SCMOS process or another process with lambda-based design rules, it's still a pretty nice set of tools to use.

Incidentally, if you're building open-source silicon, MAGIC is somewhere in that process, and I assume the Berkeley logic placer is still there even though the front-end is usually something else.

[musicale]

Ousterhout (and/or his students) has kept on hacking: Homa, Raft, RAMcloud...

I also like his software design book.

https://cs.stanford.edu/~ouster