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-Tools for schematic capture, netlist creation, and analog and digital
-simulation (log), IC mask layout, extraction, and DRC (wol), simple
-chip compilation (wolcomp), MOSIS fabrication request generation
-(mosis), netlist comparison (netcmp), data plotting (view) and
-postscript graphics editing (until). These tools were used exclusively
-for the design and test of all the integrated circuits described in
-Carver Mead's book "Analog VLSI and Neural Systems".  Until was used
-as the primary tool for figure creation for the book.  The directory
-also contains an example of an analog VLSI chip that was designed and
-fabricated with these tools, and an example of an Actel
-field-programmable gate array design that was simulated and converted
-to Actel format with these tools (example).
+The software tools in the Chipmunk system perform a wide variety of
+tasks: electronic circuit simulation and schematic capture, graphics
+editing, and curve plotting, to name a few.
+
+Here is a brief description of each of the Chipmunk tools:
+
+  Log: a graphical environment for entering circuit schematics, and
+       for analog and digital circuit simulation.
+
+  View: a tool for manipulating and plotting data.
+
+  Until: a graphics editor.
+
+  Wol: a tool for creating integrated circuit layout.
+
+In addition to these major tools, many supplementary tools are part of
+the Chipmunk system.
 
 These tools were originally written for HP 200 Series ("Chipmunk")
 computers, and were later ported to Unix and the X Window System.