Design Automation, Languages, and Simulations

As the complexity of electronic systems continues to increase, the micro-electronic industry depends upon automation and simulations to adapt quickly to market changes and new technologies. Compiled from chapters contributed to CRC's best-selling VLSI Handbook, this volume covers a broad range of topics relevant to design automation, languages, and simulations. These include a collaborative framework that coordinates distributed design activities through the Internet, an overview of the Verilog hardware description language and its use in a design environment, hardware/software co-design, system-level design of application-specific systems, and analog circuit simulators.

Internet Based Micro-Electric Design Automation (IMEDA) Framework. System-Level Design. Synthesis at the Register Transfer Level and the Behavioural Level. Performance Modeling and Analysis in VHDL. Embedded Computing Systems and Hardware/Software Co-Design. Design Automation Technology Roadmap. Design Languages. Hardware Description in Verilog: An Introductory Tutorial. Analog Circuit Simulation. Interconnect Modeling and Simulation. Power Simulation and Estimation in VLSI Circuits.