Advances in semiconductor technology and design automation, together with increased market competition, have driven engineers to achieve higher levels of integration, with shortened development cycles. Consequently, verification and analysis are becoming a major bottleneck for timely design of complex systems. The panelists and the audience will explore silicon debug and its impact on the desig...

A new VLSI design center VDEC spearheaded by Tokyo University and supported by the Japanese Government is about to alter the course of the microlectronic systems design education at Japanese Universities. The industrial support for microelectronic education and how a new and innovative Japanese University specializing in Computer Science and Computer Engineering uses projects in its curriculum ...

proteins are fundamental components of cells which mediate many essential biological processes. proteomics is a rapidly growing field for the study of proteome, the protein complement expressed by the genome of an organism or cell type. the large-scale analysis of proteins leads to a more comprehensive view of molecular and cellular pathways that improves the overall understanding of the comple...

The test problem increasingly affects system design process, related costs and time to market. Requirements from VLSI/WSI manufacturers are for fast and reliable testability tools, with the possibility of their introduction in early phases of design. This paper presents a global toolset architecture for testability analysis and test pattern generation. Three abstraction levels are considered in...

Silicon, with more than 95% of the international market share, dominates other semiconductors. The high performance of silicon microelectronics devices for electronic systems results from advanced technology in very low size for ultra large-scale integrated circuits with better performance, lower energy consumption and high reliability. New applications for the society of knowledge drive the de...