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Sponge paint--a procedural layout library in Java

Shen, 2000

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Shen G
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Abstract We have developed Sponge Paint, a Java library of tools that allow the user to layout microchip designs by writing Java programs. We chose to use a general purpose language because it is non-proprietary and makes it easy to integrate Sponge Paint into …
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