ICL Plc’s Design Automation Laboratory is set to develop new Common Object Request Broker Architecture versions of its Vise and SuperVise Motif-based chip logic simulation applications. Vise’s display component is written with Visix Software Inc’s Galaxy development environment; SuperVise provides extended display capabilities. ICL says Corba will be used to define the split between the major application components so that the different parts of SuperVise could live on separate systems. Communications are handled by ICL’s Dais object request broker. ICL says that it will ship SuperVise early next year. Fujitsu Ltd is already using Vise and will move over to SuperVise.
