Electric (software)

Initial release1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Stable release
9.07[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 22 November 2016
Repository
Written inTill version 7: C, After Version 7: Java and Scala[2]
Operating systemCross-platform
PlatformJava
TypeElectronic design automation
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Websitewww.staticfreesoft.com
www.gnu.org/software/electric

The Electric VLSI Design System is an EDA tool written in the early 1980s by Steven M. Rubin.[3][4][5] Electric is used to construct logic wire schematics and to perform analysis of integrated circuit layout. It can also handle hardware description languages such as VHDL and Verilog. The system has many analysis and synthesis tools, including design rule checking, simulation, routing, Layout vs. Schematic, logical effort, and more.

Electric is written in Java, and was released as part of the GNU project in 1998[6] under the GNU General Public License.

In 2017, Electric development ceased, but support and bug fixes continue.[6]

  1. ^ "Release of GNU Electric, version 9.07". 22 November 2016.
  2. ^ "[electric] Index of /Trunk/Electric/Electric-scala/Com/Sun/Electric/Plugins/Minarea/Deltamerge1".
  3. ^ Rubin, Steven M. (1983), "An Integrated Aid for Top-Down Electrical Design", Proceedings, VLSI '83, Anceau and Aas, Editors, North Holland, Amsterdam
  4. ^ Baker, R. Jacob (2010), CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Third Edition, Wiley-IEEE Press, doi:10.1002/9780470891179, ISBN 9780470891179
  5. ^ Zobrist, George Winston (1989), Progress in Computer-aided VLSI Design: Tools, Ablex Publishing Corporation, ISBN 9780893915384
  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Electric-History was invoked but never defined (see the help page).