Dr. Steven M. Rubin leads the development of Electric in the VLSI Research Group at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
· The Google group for the Electric VLSI Design System is http://groups.google.com/group/electricvlsi and the email address is electricvlsi@googlegroups.com
· The history of the ElectricTM VLSI Design System is found here and at Wikipedia.org.
· Electric is available in Java (and is very stable) so it can be installed on any platform (Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows).
· The online user’s manual with tutorial is found here. It can also be accessed while Electric is running by going to Help => User’s Manual or here.
· Videos illustrating the use of Electric are seen here.
Installation (for Windows)
· Examples are found in (open these libraries after you start Electric): opamp_s07.jelib, ee5410_s07.jelib (save C5_models.txt to C:\Electric) and hundreds from the CMOS book!
Setting up an Icon (optional)
C:\WINDOWS\system32\java.exe -classpath "C:\Electric\electricBinary-8.07.jar" com.sun.electric.Launcher
· Set the Start-In directory as C:\Electric
· “Change Icon” to the Icon downloaded in step 9
· Examples are found in (open these libraries after you start Electric): opamp_s07.jelib, ee5410_s07.jelib (save C5_models.txt to C:\Electric) and hundreds from the CMOS book!
Installing IRSIM (optional)
C:\WINDOWS\system32\java.exe -classpath "C:\Electric\electricBinary-8.07.jar;C:\Electric\electricIRSIM-8.07.jar" com.sun.electric.Launcher
Using SPICE (optional)
Increasing the Memory limit
of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for larger designs and to ensure only one
window is open when running Electric (optional)

Setting up the Electrical Rule Check (ERC) for n-well
CMOS processes that use n-well resistors or higher than VDD voltages (optional)
Note how we don’t require that the n-well be tied to VDD as we would in a pure digital design that doesn’t use n-well
resistors or PMOS devices with potentials above VDD (as found in a charge pump).

The Electric Windows registry can be cleared (which eliminates all of your setups including key bindings, colors, preferences, history, etc.) by going to Start -> Run then running regedit (registry edit) and deleting the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\sun\electric
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