Second Advance: Electric VLSI Design System

Second Advance: Electric VLSI Design System

The application that it's going to be used is "Electric VLSI Design System", from Static Free Software.

This application has many capabilities, since you can make the schematics designs, layout designs and icon views, until you can run many tests in order to verified the composition of yours designs. Tests about analog behavior with spice codes, digital behavior, minimal distances of the layout, crosstalk effects, also it can read files from netlists and verilog codes and so many other functions. 

It can be downloaded by: http://www.staticfreesoft.com/

This is the introduction of the program copied form the user help:

Now you have it!
A state-of-the-art computer-aided design system for VLSI circuit design. Electric designs MOS and bipolar integrated circuits, printed-circuit-boards, or any type of circuit you choose. It has many editing styles including layout, schematics, artwork, and architectural specifications.
A large set of tools is available including design-rule checkers, simulators, routers, layout generators, and more.
Electric interfaces to most popular CAD specifications including EDIF, LEF/DEF, VHDL, CIF and GDS.
The most valuable aspect of Electric is its layout-constraint system, which enables top-down design by enforcing consistency of connections.
This manual explains the concepts and commands necessary to use Electric. It begins with essential features and builds on them to explain all aspects of the system. As with any computer system manual, the reader is encouraged to have a machine handy and to try out each operation.         

So, this advance is really important in order to make an overview of the tools that are going to be used throughout the project.