Simulation of logic designs is a very important part of the VLSI-design process. The increasing size of the designs requires more e cient simulation strategies to accelerate the simulation process. Parallel logic simulation seems to be a promising approach in this direction. This paper describes the basic principles of parallel logic simulation, discusses di erent approaches, and surveys the re...

The ultimate goal of any custom chip must be its effective use in a complete system. Integrating a chip into a system is usually a nontrivial task, especially for small research teams that do not have extensive hardware and software support As a result, chips designed by universities and research laboratories are seldom evaluated beyond functional checking in isolation. In-system evaluation, na...

Available online 13 February 2009

Multiple-inputmultiple-output (MIMO)detection algorithms have received considerable research interest in recent years, as a result of the increasing need for high data-rate communications. Detection techniques range from the low-complexity linear detectors to the maximum likelihood detector, which scales exponentially with the number of transmit antennas. In between these two extremes are the t...

We describe our experiences in using microelectronic design projects as cooperative education experiences for electrical engineering majors. We discuss funding of the necessary VLSI design laboratory and describe our course offerings. We believe our “alternative co-op” program is of value to VLSI educators with limited resources who are looking for ways to provide students with an alternative t...

The standard methods used for analysing the reliability of electronic systems are unsuited to VLSI systems because of their large-scale and software-driven nature. In this paper, a review of the problems is presented together with an analysis of the difficulties encountered in extrapolation of the present techniques. Some proposals are presented with the intention of making the solution more ma...

Innovation in infant disciplines occurs most rapidly and successfully when a large number of small groups proceed independently under the motivation of market opportunity. In a few years, a substantial fraction of the engineering work force will have a working knowledge of LSI design. At the same time, fabrication areas are becoming more and more capital intensive. What is needed is a clean, st...

A new fault tolerant multipipeline array architecture and its diagnosis/reconfiguration algorithm will be presented. This multipipeline array design methodology is characterized by constant, fault distribution independent interstage path lengths. Other features include a low hardware overhead and a high survival rate when it is compared to existing approaches.