Prof. Banerjee just completed has a DARPA grant entitled "VLSI CAD on Scalable High-Performance Computing Platforms". He has issued a subcontract to Cadence Design Systems (contact: Dr. Edwin Petrus) for transferring the technology of parallel algorithms for design rule checking to that company. Last year, the project was completed. Cadence now has a commercial tool called VAMPIRE which is a design rule checker which runs in parallel on a network of workstations. The parallel algorithm is based on the techniques developed by Prof. Banerjee and his students.