A Complete set of CAD tools for teaChing Digital CMOSVLSI Design in Universities. It inCludes a VHDLCompiler and simulator, logiC synthesis tools, and automatiC plaCe and route tools. ALLIANCE is the result of a ten years effort at University Pierre et Marie Curie (PARIS VI, FranCe). It runs on Sun-4, not well supported: MIPS/Ultrix, 386/SystemV. Current version: 1.1, as of 1993-02-16. (1993-02-16)