
dtools - a clean and distributable version of the MSL "dotools" for VLSI
	design and simulation.

The original purpose of these tools was to make it easy to provide
"digital" input vectors to a spice simulation in the form of accurate
waveforms, and to compare the spice outputs with expected digital
values.  A lot of other useful functions are also provided, including
switch-level and verilog simulation with the same format test vectors.


General configuration and installation:
        ./configure
        make
        make install

By default, "configure" will install everything into /usr/local.  Customary
usage by the authors is to put VLSI-related tools into a sperate directory
such as /usr/local/vlsi.  Do this with the --prefix option to configure:

        ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/vlsi

Also see the file INSTALL for generic build/install
instructions.

In order to make use of "dospice" you must have a copy of a commercial
spice-type simulator.  Currently, Avanti's HSPICE, Avanti Starsim and
Silvaco SmartSpice are known to work.  Tanner's TSPICE has not been
tested recently, but should work.  If configure finds either "hspice"
or "tspice" in your $PATH, it will record their pathnames for use by
dospice.

If these programs are not in your path when configure is run, or their
locations change later, edit $prefix/dotools.pl to set the proper
pathnames.

