This paper browses through some well-known meta-heuristic search strategies, and briefly discusses some of their recent applications to the VLSI layout design process. It starts with very brief description of the different phases of VLSI layout design, and a brief overview of Meta-Heuristic search strategies. Since most of the VLSI layout design problems are hard optimization problems, the conc...

Our daily lives heavily depends on the social information infrastructure, which includes a huge numbers of VLSI chips. Various system failures are caused by physical faults in the circuits, human errors in design/fabrication/operation and malicious attacks. In this paper, the causes and countermeasures of failures of VLSI are summarized. The discussion leads a new direction of researches of des...

Electronic Systems are the core of everyday lives. They form an integral part in financial networks, mass transit, telephone systems, power plants and personal computers. Electronic systems are increasingly based on complex VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) integrated circuits. Initial electronic design automation is concerned with the design and production of VLSI systems. The next important...

In One of the most essential methods in digital image processing is edge detection. Because its capacity to detect edges even images heavily contaminated by noise, Canny detector widely used detection algorithm. A modified canny created MATLAB and implemented FPGA this project. The mask for gradient calculation, bilinear interpolation four pixels non-maximal suppression. iris subsystem, as a pr...