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Paradigm | functional, object-oriented |
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Developer | Cadence Design Systems |
First appeared | 1990 |
Stable release | ?
/ ? |
Typing discipline | Dynamic |
Major implementations | |
Cadence Allegro, Cadence APD, Cadence Concept HDL and Cadence Virtuoso. Major LISP implementation: Cadence UniCAD | |
Dialects | |
SKILL, SKILL++ | |
Influenced by | |
Scheme, Common Lisp, CLOS |
SKILL is a Lisp dialect used as a scripting language and PCell (parameterized cells) description language used in many electronic design automation (EDA) software suites by Cadence Design Systems. It was originally put forth in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) paper in 1990.[1]