A complete set of CAD tools for teaching Digital CMOSVLSI Design in Universities. It includes a VHDL compiler 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)