This paper outlines the concepts and the key technologies of design automation for developing high-performance microprocessor chips. The goals of the design automation system are twofold: (1) reducing the development period, (2) implementing high performance. Problems in design automation include concurrent verification of both logic and timing design, incremental physical design, and a coopera...

Design automation or computer-aided design (CAD) for microelectronic circuits has emerged since the creation of the integrated circuits (IC). It has played a crucial role to enable the rapid development of hardware and software systems in the past several decades. CAD techniques are the key driving forces behind the reduction of circuit design time and the optimization of the circuit quality. M...

Automation world is living a change of design methodologies. Old top­down approaches are being replaced by component based design allowing design, realization and exploitation cost gains. Automation training in universities also evolves in order to train future automation industrialists up to date on new design paradigms and technologies. This paper presents three projects ill...

∗Graduate student, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [email protected] †Graduate student, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, [email protected] ‡Graduate student, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, [email protected] §Department of Computer Science, Univers...

Ð Increasing design complexity and the need for multi-disciplinary / multi-national design collaboration is causing a paradigm shift in the EDA appl icat ion environment. This shif t i s necessary in order that time-to-profit goals are met in increasingly compressed market windows. The envisioned paradigm shift is enabled through Sun's J a v a  technology. This technology will impact significa...

A development of aspects of the philosophies of Leibniz and Carnap in the direction of design automation.