Fichtner Wolfgang, Morf Martin (eds.) VLSI CAD Tools and Applications

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987. — 556 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4612-9186-2.The summer school on VLSf GAD Tools and Applications was held from July 21 through August 1, 1986, at Beatenberg in the beautiful Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. The meeting was given under the auspices of IFIP WG 10. 6 VLSI, and it was sponsored by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland. Eighty-one professionals were invited to participate in the summer school, including 18 lecturers. The 81 participants came from the following countries: Australia (1), Denmark (1), Federal Republic of Germany (12), France (3), Italy (4), Norway (1), South Korea (1), Sweden (5), United Kingdom (1), United States of America (13), and Switzerland (39). Our goal in the planning for the summer school was to introduce the audience to the realities of CAD tools and their applications to VLSI design. This book contains articles by all 18 invited speakers who lectured at the summer school. The reader should realize that it was not intended to publish a textbook. However, the chapters in this book are more or less self-contained treatments of the particular subjects. Chapters 1 and 2 give a broad introduction to VLSI Design. Simulation tools and their algorithmic foundations are treated in Chapters 3 to 5 and 17. Chapters 6 to 9 provide an excellent treatment of modern layout tools. The use of CAD tools and trends in the design of 32-bit microprocessors are the topics of Chapters 10 through 16. Important aspects of VLSI testing and testing strategies are given in Chapters 18 and 19.VLSI Design Strategies.
Introduction to VLSI Design.
Simulation Tools for VLSI.
Aspects of Computational Circuit Analysis.
VLSI Circuit Analysis, Timing Verification, and Optimization.
CAD Tools for Mask Generation.
Design and Layout Generation at the Symbolic Level.
Overview of the IDA System: A Toolset for VLSI Layout Synthesis.
CAD Programming in an Object-Oriented Programming Environment.
Trends in Commercial VLSI Microprocessor Design.
Experience with CAD Tools for a 32-bit VLSI Microprocessor.
Overview of a 32-bit Microprocessor Design Project.
Architecture of Modern VLSI Processors.
A Comparison of Microprocessor Architectures given Code Generation by a Compiler.
Fault Tolerant VLSI Multicomputers.
The VLSI Design Automation Assistant: An IBM System/370 Design.
Higher Level Simulation and CHDLs.
New Trends in VLSI Testing.
VLSI Testing: DFT Strategies and CAD Tools.