Research in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) systems

This report summarizes progress in the DARPA funded VLSI Systems Research Projects from March 1981 to June 1983, inclusive. The major areas under investigation have included: analysis and synthesis design aids, applications of VLSI, special purpose chip design, VLSI computers architectures, signal processing algorithms and architectures, reliability studies, hardware specification and verification, and VLSI theory. The major research problems are introduced and progress is discussed.