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From: Steve Temple <temples@cs.man.ac.uk>
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Subject: Compass users - patches, use of Solaris, licensing summary
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Compass users,

I have just installed the latest (and probably the last) set of
patches for our Compass installation. If this causes any problems
please let me know as soon as possible.

A side effect of this is that it is now possible to use Pathfinder
(the place and route tool) on the Solaris machines ("amu10" and
"amu11"). I would encourage you to use them for this purpose if you do
not inconvenience other users. At present "amu10" is the best choice
as it has 320MB of RAM. I plan to upgrade "amu11" to the same amount
(from 64MB) in the next week or so. These are currently the fastest
machines that we have.

Just to remind you of the current licensing situation for Compass...

	amu12		runs everything

	amu13		runs everything except ChipCompiler

	all others	run Logic Assistant, Simulator, Pathfinder,
			Manager (and a few others we never use)

We only have two licences to run Pathfinder and you must have your
LM_LICENSE_FILE variable set to

	/home/amulinks/vlsi/v8r4.10/vlsi/v8r4lic.dat

In addition, if you want to run Pathfinder on amu12 or amu13 you must
start Compass like this

	xvlsi -network_features univ_manchester_3sf

It is my understanding that starting Pathfinder from within Compass
does not claim one of the licences there and then. The licence is only
used while you actually do placement and routing.

--Steve