Design automation for integrated circuits
Abstract
Consideration is given to the development status of the use of computers in automated integrated circuit design methods, which promise the minimization of both design time and design error incidence. Integrated circuit design encompasses two major tasks: error specification, in which the goal is a logic diagram that accurately represents the desired electronic function, and physical specification, in which the goal is an exact description of the physical locations of all circuit elements and their interconnections on the chip. Design automation not only saves money by reducing design and fabrication time, but also helps the community of systems and logic designers to work more innovatively. Attention is given to established design automation methodologies, programmable logic arrays, and design shortcuts.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- April 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.220.4596.465
- Bibcode:
- 1983Sci...220..465N
- Keywords:
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- Computer Aided Design;
- Integrated Circuits;
- Network Synthesis;
- Binary Data;
- Block Diagrams;
- Chips (Electronics);
- Digital Data;
- Fabrication;
- Logic Circuits;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering