Tutorial on ALLIANCE 1.1
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Welcome to ALLIANCE, A new set of tools for teaching VLSI design.

In this tutorial, you will learn the practical use of ALLIANCE tools
by building a very simple circuit from scratch.

Before you proceed to the real beginning of the tutorial, you must create
several shell windows in your Graphic User Interface. Typically, you must 
run openwin and have at least three windows opened.
You must make sure that the current directory is the same for each window.

You must also make sure that programs are really available

Try issuing the following command:

> desb 

If everything is working, you get approximatively the following result:


Desb 2.87
Usage   : desb [options] <file1> [file2] 
Options : -i     reads the '.inf' file
          -v     vectorises the vhdl description
          -a     accelerates DESB when '_s' convention is adopted
          -p=n   n is the depth for functional analysis 
          -os    Only one vdd and vss in the vhdl description
          -nh    generates a hierarchical cone netlist 
          file2  is the vhdl file to be generated (default is file1)



If it does not work, please abort the tutorial and fix pathnames.

Press <return> to continue.
