VLSI Design Environments
VLSI Design Environments

Author: George Zobrist

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-04-17

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9789056996673

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VLSI Design Environments investigates design alternatives such as object oriented data modelling. The difficulty of automating chip architecture designs is caused by the complexity of the problem. The explosion of design decions make a heuristic approach necessary. PLAYOUT aims at the solution of system problems based on hierarchy, top-down planning, silicon complier presentations, advances in encoding logic synthesis and a microarchitecre and logic optimization system. PLAYOUT supports the physical design from entering the structure of digital systems to the generation of the mask. The concept for autonomous tools with a clear interface to the network description and the simple interface to the graphics is presented. This enables the designer to have a great influence on the configuration of the placement of the schematic diagram. Substantial progress is being made in behavioural and logic synthesis, both of which depend upon specifications.

Design systems for VLSI circuits
Design systems for VLSI circuits

Author: Giovanni DeMicheli

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1987-07-31

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 9789024735624

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VLSI Design
VLSI Design

Author: K. Lal Kishore

Publisher: I. K. International Pvt Ltd

Published: 2013-12-30

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 9380026676

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Aimed primarily for undergraduate students pursuing courses in VLSI design, the book emphasizes the physical understanding of underlying principles of the subject. It not only focuses on circuit design process obeying VLSI rules but also on technological aspects of Fabrication. VHDL modeling is discussed as the design engineer is expected to have good knowledge of it. Various Modeling issues of VLSI devices are focused which includes necessary device physics to the required level. With such an in-depth coverage and practical approach practising engineers can also use this as ready reference. Key features: Numerous practical examples. Questions with solutions that reflect the common doubts a beginner encounters. Device Fabrication Technology. Testing of CMOS device BiCMOS Technological issues. Industry trends. Emphasis on VHDL.

Information Management for Engineering Design
Information Management for Engineering Design

Author: Randy H. Katz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 3642824382

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Computer-aided design syst,ems have become a big business. Advances in technology have made it commercially feasible to place a powerful engineering workstation on every designer's desk. A major selling point for these workstations is the computer aided design software they provide, rather than the actual hardware. The trade magazines are full of advertisements promising full menu design systems, complete with an integrated database (preferably "relational"). What does it all mean? This book focuses on the critical issues of managing the information about a large design project. While undeniably one of the most important areas of CAD, it is also one of the least understood. Merely glueing a database system to a set of existing tools is not a solution. Several additional system components must be built to create a true design management system. These are described in this book. The book has been written from the viewpoint of how and when to apply database technology to the problems encountered by builders of computer-aided design systems. Design systems provide an excellent environment for discovering how far we can generalize the existing database concepts for non-commercial applications. This has emerged as a major new challenge for database system research. We have attem pted to avoid a "database egocentric" view by pointing out where existing database technology is inappropriate for design systems, at least given the current state of the database art. Acknowledgements.

Design Automation
Design Automation

Author: Michael Bushnell

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0323148727

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Design Automation: Automated Full-Custom VLSI Layout Using the ULYSSES Design Environment deals with the use of the Ulysses design environment for an automated full-custom VLSI layout. Topics covered include VLSI chip design and design process, control mechanisms in Ulysses, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in design environments. An example design task is also presented. This book is comprised of 10 chapters and begins with an overview of VLSI computer-aided design (CAD), focusing on an expert system based design environment aimed at solving the CAD tool integration problem. An example CAD tool suite for such an environment is presented. The next chapter describes prior attempts at developing an integrated design environment, followed by a discussion on the computer-aided VLSI design process that motivated the development of the Ulysses design environment. The following chapters explore the use of AI techniques within Ulysses; the fundamental architecture of Ulysses; and the control mechanisms that govern the decision to execute various CAD tools, on particular files, within Ulysses. The implementation of Ulysses is also discussed. The final chapter demonstrates the feasibility of a knowledge-based design environment for VLSI chip design applications; the success of Ulysses at further automating the VLSI design process; and the usability of Ulysses as a VLSI design environment. This monograph will be a valuable resource for systems designers and other practitioners in computer science and computer engineering.

Readings in Object-Oriented Database Systems
Readings in Object-Oriented Database Systems

Author: Stanley B. Zdonik

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 9781558600003

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This comprehensive collection is a survey of research in object-oriented databases, offering a substantive overview of the field, section introductions, and over 40 research papers presented in their original scope and detail. The balanced selection of articles presents a confluence of ideas from both the language and database research communities that have contributed to the object-oriented paradigm. The editors develop a general definition and model for object-oriented databases and relate significant research efforts to this framework. Further, the collection explores the fundamental notions behind object-oriented databases, semantic data models, implementation of object-oriented systems, transaction processing, interfaces, and related approaches. Research and theory are balanced by applications to CAD systems, programming environments, and office information systems.

Tool Integration and Design Environments
Tool Integration and Design Environments

Author: F. J. Rammig

Publisher: North Holland

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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This volume is a documentation of a workshop which brought together active researchers in the field of CAD for hardware design. The main features are as follows: - recent research results in the field of hardware design environments - comparison of different approaches of tool integration - evolution from isolated tools to integrated design systems. The book is divided into the following sections: data management, data models, open systems, integrated systems, tool boxes, language based systems and design management.