Whiteley Research Incorporated

IC Design Software for Linux, MacOS and Windows
Physical Layout - DRC - Extraction - Simulation - LVS - Automation

Since 1996, a California Corporation

After 7 years, Dr. Whiteley has returned from "sabbatical"!

Major News! Product sales have been discontinued.

All products are free Open-Source.

Release branch 4.3 (post-production) packages are now available, (Apache-2.0 license).

Good News! Packages are back (for now).
Future distributions may rely on building from source, avaliable from github.com.wrcad/xictools. See the README file from that link for instructions for building from source. It isn't that hard!

More Good News! The new packages contain executables for both GTK and Qt. The long effort to port to Qt is done (except for the inevitable cleanup). The more use this gets, the faster the cleanup! See here for more information.

These products have had a nice run of 21 years in the commercial marketplace.

To our customers: Thank You for your support over the years.

The Company

The "Products"

XicTools Packages

XicTools Source (github)

More Free Software

Xic Manual (html)

Xic Manual (PDF)

Xic Help System

WRspice Manual (html)

WRspice Manual (PDF)

WRspice Help System

Welcome to Whiteley Research!
Featuring

The Fourth Generation XicTools Software

Whiteley Research offers the XicTools software products: Xic is a graphical editor and design tool for integrated circuit mask layout, schematic capture, and much more. WRspice is a companion circuit simulation tool.

The new XicTools-4.3 consists of a git repository which generates 8 packages: Xic, WRspice, vl (a Verilog simulator, stand-alone and integrated into WRspice), MRouter (a maze router for Xic), adms (a Verilog-a to C++ converter for creating WRspice plug-in device models), FastCap (capacitance computation from geometry, for Xic), FastHenry (inductance extraction, for Xic), and mozy (stand-alone help/html viewer and accessories). These programs work together and make use of common resources, and the packages will supersede those previously available from this web site.