OCEAN is a sea-of-gates chip design package designed at Delft University of
    Technology in the Netherlands.
    Copyright (C) 1992-1996 Patrick Groeneveld and Paul Stravers.

    The OCEAN package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
    Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
    option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
    ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
    more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
    with the OCEAN package (it is in the file named "COPYING" on the FTP host
    donau.et.tudelft.nl, directory pub/ocean); if not, write to the Free
    Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

    If you have any questions or doubts about this copyright notice, contact
    the authors either by e-mail or by paper mail. The address is

         Paul Stravers or Patrick Groeneveld
	 Delft Univerity of Technology
         Faculty of Electrical Engineering
	 Mekelweg 4
	 2628CD  Delft
	 The Netherlands

	 internet e-mail: ocean@muresh.et.tudelft.nl



The OCEAN tools are a central component in the 'fishbone' Sea-of-Gates
design trajectory. This trajectory covers the design from circuit level to a
physical chip. All software and design effort for this trajectory was
performed 'in house' at Delft University of Technology, department of
electrical engineering. The following people contibuted to the trajectory:

 ** The software **
Circuit tools 'sls' 'simeye':  Arjan van Genderen 
Extractor 'space':             Nick van der Meijs
Ocean placer 'Madonna':        Paul Stravers and Irek Karkowski
Ocean router 'trout':          Patrick Groeneveld
Layout editor 'seadali':       Patrick Groeneveld (based on nelsis 'dali')
Purifiers 'fish'and 'ghoti':   Patrick Groeneveld and Paul Stravers
Database support (seadif):     Paul Stravers and Patrick Groeneveld
Database support (Nelsis3):    Nick v/d Meijs, Paul Stravers, Patrick Groeneveld
Database support (Nelsis4):    Alfred van der Hoeven and Pieter van der Wolf
Nelsis backbone system:        Legacy of many people
Overall software Coordination: Patrick Groeneveld 

 ** The chip **
The 'fishbone' image:          Paul Stravers and Patrick Groeneveld
Multi-project chip:            Paul Stravers, Patrick Groeneveld,
                               Reinder Nouta, Anton Bakker and Antoon Frehe
Library design:                Anton Bakker, Emile Hendriks, 
	                       Paul Stravers and Patrick Groeneveld
Design 'empty' chip:           Rein Nouta, Paul Stravers, and Antoon Frehe
Processing 125 empty wafers:   Philips Research Laboratories (via Rein Nouta)
Metalization (DIMES):          Hugo Schellevis, Cees Beenakker
Chip layout assembly:          Antoon Frehe
Chip testing:                  Rob Bruinink and Hubert Schuiyt

 ** documentation **
Manuals/tutorials:             Paul Stravers, Patrick Groeneveld, Anton Bakker, 
			       Emile Hendriks, Rein Nouta, Arjan van Genderen

 ** and finally **
The OP practicum commission:   Emile Hendriks, Anton Bakker, Reinder Nouta,
			       Chris Verhoeven, Cees Beenakker and 
			       Patrick Groeneveld
Financial support by:	       Faculty of Electrical Engineering, TU Delft
			       PICO (wafer processing, test equipment)
			       IOP Sea-of-Gates project 
			       Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
Special thanks to:             Prof. Ralph Otten, Prof. Patrick Dewilde