Elettrolinux

The Electric (a trademark of Static Free Software, a division of RuLabinsky Enterprises, Incorporated) VLSI Design System is an open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) system that can handle many forms of circuit design, including:

is written in the Java programming language and is distributed as a single ".jar" file to launch with command java -jar name_file.jar. Electric has many synthesis tools, including routing, compaction, silicon compilation, PLA generation, and compensation. There are various plugins; Electric plug-ins are additional pieces of code that can be downloaded separately (from here) to enhance the system's functionality. Electric reads and writes libraries of circuitry in its own binary format. For portability between computers, it is also able to read and write a textual format of its database. However, for maximum compatibility with other EDA systems, Electric supports a number of popular interchange and manufacturing formats: CIF (Caltech Intermediate Format - I/O), GDS II (Calma GDS interchange format - I/O), EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format - I/O), SUE (Schematic User Environment - only Input), DXF (AutoCAD mechanical format - I/O), VHDL (Hardware description language - I/O), Verilog (Hardware description language - only Output), CDL (Cadence's circuit description language - only Output), EAGLE (Schematic capture interface - only Output), ECAD (Schematic capture interface - only Output), HPGL (Plotting language - only Output), Postscript (Plotting language - only Output).