0006 85/10/10 00:41:41 * MORE ADDITION TO THE CMOS4 FAMILY             *
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The CM4NEWS Publisher, who couldn't find his own car for 10 minutes in
the very dark Corkstown parking lot about 20h00, October 9, wishes to
announce the addition of the following primary cells to the CMOS4 family:

- PU    (new):  Pull-up   transistor
- PD    (new):  Pull-down transistor

- PAD4  (PAIO on Y13)
- PREI4 (PRES on Y13)
- PREO4 (OUTD on Y13)

Here is rather impressive statistics of the CMOS4 Cell Library as of
October 10, 1985, presented to Roly Reader:

     - 31 primitive primary cells  (18 SUDS cells)
     - 34 composite primary cells  (33 SUDS cells)
     -  2 manufacturing aid cells
     -  5 PLA array cells
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total: 72 primary cells            (51 SUDS cells)

Steve Sunter's primary function nowadays is to enter an FSPEC for each
cell into the feature database.  Steve is very proud of generating the
greatest number of features among all the BNR departments (combined??).
However, no description file is yet available for any of these cells in
spite of a threat from Wayne McFall not to test the CMOS4 cells without
data sheets.

HLPCOM EXEC, which was causing a familiar CMS ABBEND problem reported by
Hojjat Salemi, was finally fixed October 7.  It was a case of missing
FORTRAN subroutine in MACE and MACS MODULEs, both of which are called
by MAC EXEC called by HLPCOM EXEC.  Also, a bug in CM4 PCPROC file was
fixed, and the plots produces by PLOTDATA package now have correct scale.

Where have you gone, Dave Smith?  The CM4NEWS Publisher's love call to
Dave has changed from "I want you" to "I need you".  Poor Go S. Sunatori,
who merely maintains Dave's CM4 PROCESS file, is receiving misdirected
accusations recently for some missing key double-metal parameters which
are responsible for fatal work stoppage in both MCCHECK and WIDEN.
(Did anybody know Dave is actually 3 years younger than Charlie Brown?)

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