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From: i.nedelchev@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Ivailo Nedelchev)
Newsgroups: comp.cad.cadence
Subject: libs for cadence wanted
Keywords: es2 libs prefered
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:39:40 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England


hi cadence users,

i am doing some research in asynchronous circuits
and i really need some libs for cadence
which with i can simulate my devices under hspice/spice.
i have mietec 2.4u and es2 1.5u from ral.
mietec 2.4u works fine with all stages
of the technology : schematic -> layout -> place & route.
but i need something less than 1.5u for digital design.
es2 libs from ral are quite misconfigured.
these es2 libs are not supported by ES2,
and whats more important - i can NOT do simulation
using hspice/spice for any design.
these libs havent got any info for simulation except for
simulation at logical level like with silos/verilog.

initially i have to simulate all basic cells so i can 
establish what the delays are for my library cells and the behaviour
in generally of their outputs.
these cells are different from nands nors xors etc etc.
i have to produce layout and place&route then.

any ideas: where from can i find such libs?
i prefer ES2 supported libs but any 
other references are welcome.

many thanx,
ivailo

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From: gideon@honda.dsp.hellnet.org (Gideon Wertheizer)
Newsgroups: comp.cad.cadence
Subject: Version Control In OPUS
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:57:29 GMT
Organization: DSP Semiconductors, Israel.


   We use "check-in", "check-out" method to our layout versions.
 However, we find out that it is impossible to place a cell that is
 NOT the  "latest version". 

 Does any one has a method of how to place a cell from a version
that is not a "current version" ?????


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	Gideon Wertheizer    D.S.P Group    gideon@dsp.hellnet.org
From: ScrewedOver@cup.portal.com (Eric J Rainbolt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Midwest Micro Fiasco...
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 20:28:20 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Has anybody out there had any problems with Midwest Micro, specifically
with a computer purchased there?

Here's what I am dealing with:

Five months ago, I purchased an "Elite" 386 DX system from them, along
with a printer,  monitor, etc.  It worked fine for about three months, 
and then the nightmare began.  

I first suffered a "catastrophic Motherboard Failure", and the tech
people there sent me a new motherboard, instructing me how to install it
myself.  This worked fine for about a month, at which time the damn thing
began crashing repetitively, as well as "locking up", requiring a power-down.

The third motherboard was then shipped, and it failed to work as soon as
it was installed.  I was pissed, and they agreed to take the entire 
system back.   I was withoug
without a computer for about 2 weeks, since they sent it back to the wrong 
address.  They had replaced the motherboard, as well as the hard drive.
(they did not bother to copy my old data onto the new drive - they sent
me a blank drive!!)_

This worked for 10 days, at which time it crashed again.  Once again I
have sent it back to the company and I am waiting for a response.
They refuse to give me a refund since the 30 day money back guarantee
is long since passed - I have basically flushed $2000 + down the toilet.

Has anybody else had troubles with Midwest Micro?  I'd really like to 
hear about it...we could start a club of bankrupt, conned, innocent students!
mail me at:

burke@zeus.c-engr2.siu.edu

(maybe there's a lawyer out there who can give me some advise, or at
 least somebody could cheer me up!!)
.
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: leaving it on?
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:32:04 GMT

ae277@yfn.ysu.edu (Stewart Rowe) writes:

>Here is an item extracted from the Washington Post which may interest you.
> 
> The EPA is trying to promote energy-efficient personal computers.
>    A single PC doesn't use much electricity. You can keep
>your home computer turned on around the clock for a month and barely notice the
>difference when the electric bill comes around. But with personal computers now
>humming away in tens of millions of offices and tens of millions of homes, the
>EPA started counting kilowatts and came up with a striking conclusion.
>    The agency released figures earlier this year suggesting that personal
>computers account for 5 percent of the total commercial electricity consumption
>in the United States; with computer use spreading like crazy, the figure was
>projected to rise to 10 percent by the end of the decade.

[Stuff deleted]

I'm surprised that the number is that high.

I have also heared about another problem PCs cause due to the switched power
supplies used in them. A switched supply draws a constant power from the
power input. The power used by a  normal resistive load will depend on
the voltage. During peak power usage the power company will sometimes
drop the voltage to reduce the amount of power they must produce.
Nice loads like light-bulbs will reduce their power usage as the voltage
drops. PCs just suck more current to make up for the voltage drop.

The power company doesn't like PCs. :-)

-- 
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Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net            uunet!motcid!wiegand
Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: mpiet@is.morgan.com (Mark Pietrasanta)
Subject: Re: WANTED: word perfect-> ascii converter
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:12:43 GMT

In article <1drpatINNnaj@uwm.edu>, dcleek@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dick Cleek) writes:
|> From article <judgesp.721505847@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, by judgesp@craft.ca
mp.clarkson.edu (Sean Judge):
|> > Can someone please tell me where I might get such a beast? Or point
|> > me in the right direction.
|> >
|>
|> why not just use the DOS (ascii) save feature in WordPerfect
|> CTRL-F5 in wp5.0 and 5.1
|>

Or, I downloaded a piece of shareware called TO5.EXE from CompuServer
somewhere, and it allows you to convert WP5.1 to ascii inside a batch
file.  This was useful when I needed to automate some stuff (like
mailing WP5.1 documents in a text-only mail system).

Name: TextOut5/v2.02
From: CrossCourt Systems
      1521 Greenview Ave.
      East Lansing, MI  48823

      (517) 332-4353

It works pretty well.  Let me know if you would like more info.

-- 
Mark Pietrasanta - mpiet@is.morgan.com
* * * * * * * * *

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

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            views of my employer.
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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford)
Subject: Re: looking for Columbia Univ CCA (FOUND)
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:46:34 GMT

Never mind, I found it.
-- 
Keith E. Ford     __
Intergraph Corp  /  \ Micro Magic BBS 1:373/12  The Dragon Server
+1 205 730-8614  \__/ sysop@umagic.fidonet.org  server@ingr.com
fordke@ingr.com  [__] 830-2362 HST/V32bis 9600  "Subject: HELP"
From: manent@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: NEED INFO ON IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:38:23 EST
Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center

PLEASE, I NEED INFORMATION OR SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON IMAGES ENHANCEMENT.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO, PLEASE SEND ME A MESSAGE AT:

MANENT@TITAN.KSC.NASA.GOV
OR
59228581V@SERVAX.FIU.EDU

THANKS,
DIANA MANENT

Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Subject: Re: The "commercial use of net" problem -- irrelevant?
Keywords: Internet, commercial usage
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:45:41 GMT

ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
}I'm used to seeing "commercial use of the net" being frowned upon. ...
}Notice:
}1. Services like Clarinet are explicitly commercial ...
}2. ...bookstores operating on the net...advertise on misc.books.technical
}3. Companies routinely post press releases and the like on newsgroups. ...
}4. small-time entrepreneurs who hawk homemade PCs ... misc.forsale groups.
}5. ...use email for "commercial" applications...business correspondence...
}6. Lots of profit making companies sell net access in various shapes...
}7. Misc.jobs.offered and misc.jobs.wanted are routes for companies to...
}I see all the above "commercial uses of the net" as being commonplace,
}and I don't think they detract from the utility of the network.
}What do you think?

I think we are starting down the slippery slope -- I hope the day never comes
when I have to wade through a bunch of adverts in my news or e-mail to get to
the people I want to talk to.

You don't have to look around very far to see what level this could sink to.

     SNail mail -- clogged with bulk rate crap.
     Commercial TV -- 5 minutes of commercials every 15 minutes.
     Telephone -- most households with answering machines to screen tele-scum.

John
-- 
John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Systems Software Engineer
Project Vincent
Iowa State University Computation Center  +  Ames, IA  50011  +  515/294-9551
From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The "commercial use of net" problem -- irrelevant?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:53:58 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

>I think we are starting down the slippery slope -- I hope the day never comes
>when I have to wade through a bunch of adverts in my news or e-mail to get to
>the people I want to talk to.

>You don't have to look around very far to see what level this could sink to.

>     SNail mail -- clogged with bulk rate crap.
>     Commercial TV -- 5 minutes of commercials every 15 minutes.
>     Telephone -- most households with answering machines to screen tele-scum.
>

I would add:

      Prodigy -- the ultimate (I hope!!) example

Dave
dbell@cup.portal.com

>John
>-- 
>John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
>Systems Software Engineer
>Project Vincent
>Iowa State University Computation Center  +  Ames, IA  50011  +  515/294-9551
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton)
Subject: UTSANUG meeting
Reply-To: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton)
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:15:11 GMT

All and everyone,

	The University of Texas at San Antonio NeXT Users Group will be
having a meeting on Friday, the 4th of December, at 6:30 p.m.  The meeting
will be held at UTSA, exact location to be determined.  Demonstrations
will include :

	1. co-Xist : X-windows for the NeXT

	2. Knowledge Tool : a multimedia presentation program that is
still in beta

	3. ObjectWorks\Smalltalk and VisualWorks from ParcPlace Systems -
a pure OO development environment which is being ported to the NeXT

Also, we will have four NeXT machines for people to "play" on.  There will
be food and drink afterwards.  

Note : This and all meetings are informal so people wearing suits and ties
will be shot.

For additional information, send e-mail to Daniel Shelton
(dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu).
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: David F. Johnson <dj10@cornell.edu>
Subject: need help locating microfiche scanner/service
X-Xxdate: Sat, 21 Nov 92 17: 41:19 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: dj10@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:38:17 GMT

I have a project in mind that would involve scanning text and image
stored on microfiche (not microfilm). Does anyone know of any
manufacturer of such a machine, or alternatively a service that could do
the scanning for me? Thanks in advance,

David F. Johnson
Cornell University
dj10@cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc,sci.electronics
From: bob@nmt.edu (Bobsickle (tm))
Subject: Caffeine
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:28:50 GMT



                              QUESTIONNAIRE
                         TO EXAMINE CAFFEINE USE
                        AMONG COMPUTER SCIENTISTS
                         AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
                                     
Most of us enjoy consuming caffeine in one form or another. The purpose of
this questionnaire is to examine how much caffeine is being consumed, what
form the caffeine is being consumed in, and who is consuming it.

Please answer these questions with email to: bob@jupiter.nmt.edu
with the subject 'survey'.

**Please do not post your answers, that will waste bandwidth**

You don't have to quote the whole article, just use 6 lines or so:
EXAMPLE
	1 CS
	2 85 cans
	3 Jolt
	4 5 pots
	5 none (gives me a headache)
	6 45 Vivarin/hr.

Thank you!

1. What is your field of work/study?
    EE       CS        BothNeither

2. How much soda do you consume per day (average)?
    ________

3. What kind of soda do you drink?
    ________

4. How much coffee do you consume per day (average)?
    ________

5. How much tea?
    ________

6. Do you take any caffeinated pills? If so, how many?
    Vivarin  NoDoze    Maximum Strength Excedrin
    ______   ______    ______

bob@jupiter.nmt.edu
Bob "Chunkstyle" Broilo

Xref: sparky comp.misc:4362 misc.wanted:9823
From: john.Latala@Waterloo.NCR.COM (john Latala)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.wanted
Subject: looking for a metal circular slide rule
Date: 20 Nov 92 22:08:21 GMT

Does anybody have a metal circular slide rule hiding in the corners of
their desk that they're willing to part with?

Many years ago when I needed one of these I think I remember seeing a
rather nice metal circular slide rule in the Pickett (remember them?)
catalog (I think I'm dating myself here :-)
--
john.Latala@Waterloo.NCR.COM

If I paint the whole world 18% gray I won't have any trouble setting the
exposure on my camera!
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford)
Subject: looking for Columbia Univ CCA
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:09:52 GMT


I'm trying to contact someone at the Center for Computing Activities
at Columbia University.  I have been told that they operate an anonymous
ftp site with the latest sources for vms kermit.  Please email any
assistance to fordke@ingr.com.  Thanks!
-- 
Keith E. Ford     __
Intergraph Corp  /  \ Micro Magic BBS 1:373/12  The Dragon Server
+1 205 730-8614  \__/ sysop@umagic.fidonet.org  server@ingr.com
fordke@ingr.com  [__] 830-2362 HST/V32bis 9600  "Subject: HELP"
Xref: sparky comp.misc:4374 comp.lang.c:17028 comp.lang.c++:16762
From: fhi0055@hq.dla.mil (Marc Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re:  Confused
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:54:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: HQ Defense Logistics Agency/DASC, Cameron Station, VA


 In response to my last inquirey concerning a 'C' loop.  I solved the
 situation.  Many thanks to those who sent responses.  Many were
 informative and helpful.

 Marc
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: dsutch@helix.nih.gov (Dennis Sutch)
Subject: Looking for computer statistics
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:36:37 GMT

I am looking for statistics on computer usage, such as number of homes
with PCs, number of people with access to Internet, number of people
using CompuServe, BIX, ....  If you have any idea where this information
can be found, please let me know.

Thanks
Dennis (dsutch@helix.nih.gov)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Subject: Re: Multitasking/Multithreading
Keywords: multitasking, multithreading, flame wars
Organization: Smith College
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:28:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.171917.12024@bsu-ucs> 00llhamilton@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
>you out there in "Wonderland".  I want to know the difference between
>"multitasking" and "multithreading".  These terms are somewhat confusing
>to me, so could someone explain them better?  

In a nutshell, this is my understanding:


The two terms are similar but with some subtle distinctions.
Multitasking usually refers to a computer system's ability to run
multiple independant programs simultaneously on the same piece of
hardware in such a way that no one program has to be particularly
aware of any of the others.

Multithreading usually refers to program code that explicitly
takes advantage of a multitasking environment for its operation.
For example, in a GUI environment a program is usually event
driven; events being mouse clicks, keystrokes, menu selections
and such.  In a multithreaded program, you might have one task
completely devoted to collecting these events and dispatching
appropriate tasks to handle the event.  Since the environment is
multitasking, many tasks can be spawned and all be running in
parallel.

The ways you can use multithreading and are limited only by your
imagination.  Once you get used to using and programming in a
good multitasking system it is very hard to be satisfied with
anything less.  But, this is where the issues of "good" raises
its ugly head; cooperative (mac, windows) vs preemptive (unix,
os/2, windows-nt, amiga) and all the varying shades of each.

To be honest, if you want to learn more about this topic, I would
suggest you go to a university library and thumb through a good
book on operating systems theory.  In particular, read about task
management / timesharing.  Most *discussions* of multitasking
I've seen on the net quickly degenerate into flame wars about
"Windows is/isn't REAL multitasking because blah blah blah..." and
very little *useful* information in presented.

With a good bit of background OS theory under your belt, you can
go out into the real world and look at all the systems that
proclaim to be multitasking and draw your own conclusions.  


Nutshell closed.

-john
-- 
=== jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================
======================================= Come up and be a kite!  --K. Bush ===
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com (wooga wooga wooga)
Subject: Re: CompacTape II?
Reply-To: lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com 
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:31:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.213216.25626@aruba.uucp>, craigd@aruba.UUCP (Craig Dunham) writes:
~
~The CompacTapeII is a 296 MB capacity tape that can be read or written only
~in the TK70 drives found on newer VAXs, such as the 4000, 6000 series, etc..
~
~The original CompacTape is a 95 MB capacity tape, which can be read and
~written in the TK50 drives, or read only (but not written) in TK70 drives.
~
~So, a TK50 drive can read/write only the original CompacTapes.
~A TK70 drive can read the original CompacTape and read/write the CompacTapeII.
~
~Since the microVAX-II has a TK50 drive, you will be unable (as you found
~out) to use CompacTapeII cartridges on this machine.

	Almost.  Actually, the CompacTapeII cartridge can be used in both
	TK50 & TK70 drives.  The key point is in which type of drive it is
	first initialized.  If it is first initialized in a TK50 drive, it 
	will act like a standard TK50 tape -- read/writeable in a TK50 drive, 
	but in a TK70 drive, it can only be read.  If first initialized in a 
	TK70 drive, the TK70 will be able to read/write it, but the TK50 
	will be completely clueless.  

	I believe that you can use a bulk eraser to wipe the formatting info,
	but I've never tried it.

--

   *A* 


Andy Lee
lee@n2itiv.enet.dec.com   or   ...!decwrl!n2itiv.enet.dec.com!lee
lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com    or   ...!decwrl!torrid.ogo.dec.com!lee
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
From: hole@netcom.com (Will Leland)
Subject: Secret Screens, Doodads, and Easter Eggs - A List
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:40:55 GMT

Word for Windows:  Six little men appearing, trying to escape a green
WordPerfect monster. They end up squashing it with a Word log.
How:  Open a new document, select Record Macro under the Tools menu.  Create a
macro named SPIFF and click on the OK box.  From the Tools menu again,
select Stop Recorder, then Macro and click on SPIFF.  Select Edit and
delete the Sub Main and End Sublines.  Under the File menu, select Close
and click on Yes.  Go to the Help menu, select About and click on the Word
logo.

Norton Desktop for Windows:  A picture of the development team with
quotations from Hilaire Belloc, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Victor Hugo, etc.
How:  Select About from the Help menu.  Click three times while holding down
the keys N, D, and W.

Excel 4.0:  Blue and pink logo moves across screen leaving bugs and debris.
Archrival logo swoops down, ejects competitor, and says "No Problemo."
How:  Call up a blank worksheet with a Standard Tool Bar on top.  Use the
right hand button on the mouse and click.  From the Customize option, select
Custom, drag the Solitaire icon to an empty spot on the Tool Bar.  Under
Assign to Tool, click OK, click Close, then hold the Ctrl Alt Shift keys
while clicking on the Solitaire icon.

OS/2 2.0:  Picture of beach with names of the development team.
How:  Ctrl Alt Shift and O together.

(from the LA Times 11/22/92)
From: 00llhamilton@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Multitasking/Multithreading
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:19:16 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

Hello,  I am a Ball State student and I have a few questions to ask of
you out there in "Wonderland".  I want to know the difference between
"multitasking" and "multithreading".  These terms are somewhat confusing
to me, so could someone explain them better?  

Thanks,  

BSU
may send e-mail to 00LLHAMILTON
 
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton)
Subject: nonmilitary NIC
Reply-To: dan@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (Daniel Shelton)
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:37:07 GMT

Hello All,

	Is there an NIC type information service which will list nonmilitary internet sites?

Thanks,

Dan
Newsgroups: comp.misc