Alliance is a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for
VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis
tools, and automatic place and route tools. A complete set of portable
CMOS libraries is provided, including a RAM generator, a ROM generator
and a data-path compiler. Alliance is the result of a ten year effort
spent at ASIM department of LIP6 laboratory of the Pierre et Marie Curie
University (Paris VI, France). Alliance has been used for research projects
such as the 875 000 transistors StaCS superscalar microprocessor and 400 000
transistors IEEE Gigabit HSL Router.