.TH electric 1 11/12/00 .SH NAME electric - a VLSI design system .SH SYNOPSIS \fBelectric\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION Electric is a general purpose system for all electrical design. It currently knows about nMOS, CMOS, Bipolar, artwork, schematics, printed-circuit boards, and many other technologies. It has a large set of tools including multiple design-rule checkers (both incremental and hierarchical), an electrical rules checker, over a dozen simulator interfaces, multiple generators (PLA and pad frame), multiple routers (stitching, maze, river), network comparison, compaction, compensation, a VHDL compiler, and a silicon compiler that places-and-routes standard cells. .PP In addition to the text terminal used to invoke the program, Electric uses a color display with a mouse as a work station. Separate windows are used for text and graphics. .PP If a \fIlibrary\fR disk file is mentioned on the command line, that file is read as the initial design for editing. In addition, the following switches are recognized: .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-mdi .br \fRmultiple document interface mode .TP \fB\-sdi .br \fRsingle document interface mode .TP \fB\-NOMINMEM .br \fRignore minimum memory provided for JVM .TP \fB\-s