Alliance is a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries
for VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic
synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools.  A complete set
of portable CMOS libraries is provided.  Alliance is the result of a
twelve year effort spent at ASIM department of LIP6 laboratory of
the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI, France).

Remark: Coriolis was started in the year 2000 as a replacement for the place &
route stage of Alliance, and thus Alliance does not get many development.