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6 Alliance is a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI
7 design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and
8 automatic place and route tools. A complete set of portable CMOS libraries is
9 provided. Alliance is the result of a twelve year effort spent at ASIM
10 department of LIP6 laboratory of the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris
11 VI, France). Alliance has been used for research projects such as the 875 000
12 transistors StaCS superscalar microprocessor and 400 000 transistors IEEE