Tools
Industry standard for custom integrated circuit schematic and layout tools. Tools are available to universities at a lower cost.
Industry standard for logic synthesis.
Tools are available to universities at a lower cost.
Another major integrated circuit tool vendor.
Commercial layout (Max) and schematic (Sue) tools available free to universities.
VLSI tools. List price is lower than Cadence, but university price is still substantial.
Free, commercial quality SPICE simulator.
Free, commercial quality Verilog/VHDL simulator, limited to 10,000 lines of code.
Open-source schematic and layout editor.
Free layout editor. Dated but still usable. Superseded by Max from MicroMagic.
Free switch-level simulator, works well with Magic.