design automation



Electronic design automation, also referred to as electronic computer-aided design, is a category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The tools work together in a design flow that chip designers use to design and analyze entire semiconductor chips.

Algorithms for VLSI Design Automation intends to show current and future users of VLSI CAD tools what is going on inside these tools. This should lead to insight into what tasks can or cannot typically be performed by such tools, and why some problems can only be

Computer methods for design automation
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Abstract Design automation requires reliable methods for solving the equations describing the performance of the engineering system. While progress has been made to provide good algorithms for polynomial systems, we propose new techniques for the solution of general

Intermediate Predicate Format for design automation tools
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This paper describes the Intermediate Predicate Format (IPF) which is used in Design Automation for complex digital hardware. Programs written in standard high-level programming languages are translated into the IPF file, using an optimizing front-end Microfluidics-based biochips, also called lab-on-a-chip, are becoming increasingly popular as a technology platform for the detection, analysis and manipulation of biochemical samples for genomics, proteomics, clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and bio

Application-driven design automation for microprocessor design
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ADAS is an Application-driven Design Automation System for microprocessor design . The goal of ADAS is to automat ically explore the design space and synthesize a single chip VLSI processor from a high-level speciļ¬cation of the Instruc-tion Set Architecture (ISA)status of industrial and governmental design automation pany we interviewed, we included onegraphicscompany to systems applied to digital systems, with primary emphasis obtain firsthand knowledge of new developments for PC on digital cards and LSI circuits. In this article

Analog circuit design automation for performance
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This paper describes an improved version of the program SEAS (a Simulated Evolution approach for Analog circuit Synthesis), in which an approach for selection of alternatives based on the evaluation of mutation values is developed, and design automafion for high

Design automation for multi-material printing
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The advent of multi-material freeform fabrication technologies has exponentially increased the mechanical design space available to engineers. The feature-based paradigm of traditional CAD software is insufficient to take advantage of the freedom of internal material

Active learning in an electronic design automation course
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One of the key microelectronic system design courses in the electrical and computer engineering programs at Michigan State University underwent course review and development in the context of several confluent efforts. These efforts included restructuring of the undergraduate program

Low power design automation
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We investigate differences in power between application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and custom integrated circuits, with examples from 0.6 um to 0.13 um CMOS. A variety of factors cause synthesizable designs to consume 3 to 7 more power. We discuss the

Towards a generic framework of engineering design automation for creating complex CAD models
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For enterprises which engineer and produce highly customized products the reduction of design and manufacturing costs is of utmost importance. In this article, work towards a generic software framework for automating design processes resulting in complex customer

Aircraft wing design automation with ESO and GESO
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Group evolutionary structural optimization (GESO) is a recent modification of evolutionary structural optimization (ESO) that extends the topological method to configuration optimization. This paper demonstrates the optimization of an aircraft wing with ESO and

A genetic algorithm for VLSI physical design automation
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Solving discrete optimization problems with genetic algorithms is in many aspects di erent from the solution of continuous problems. The blindness of the algorithm during the search in the space of encodings must be abandoned, because this space is discrete and the

Design automation challenges for microfluidics-based biochips
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Microfluidics-based biochips are soon expected to revolutionize clinical diagnosis, DNA sequencing, and other laboratory procedures involving molecular biology. As more bioassays are executed concurrently on a biochip, system integration and design complexity

DAPR: Design Automation for Partially Reconfigurable FPGAs.
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Partial reconfiguration (PR) enhances traditional FPGA-based high-performance reconfigurable computing by providing additional benefits such as reduced area and memory requirements, increased performance, and increased functionality. However, since

Towards Application-Specific Architecture Platforms: Embedded Systems Design Automation Technologies.
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Embedded Systems 1994 now Pierre Paulin Biography Page 2. STMicroelectronics Towards Application-Specific Architecture Platforms: Embedded Systems Design Automation Technologies Pierre Paulin Director, Embedded Systems Technology Central RD Page 3. Central RD

Design automation technology for codesign: status and directions
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The need for computer-aided design tools and design automation for hardware/software CoDesign has developed to the point that commercial tools supporting CoDesign activities are under development and use. These tools are the first attempts to address CoDesign

Controller design automation for aeroservoelastic design optimization of wind turbines
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The purpose of this paper is to integrate the controller design of wind turbines with structure and aerodynamic analysis and use the final product in the design optimization process (DOP) of wind turbines. To do that, the controller design is automated and integrated with an

Design of a feature-based multi-viewpoint design automation system
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Abstract− Viewpoint-dependent feature-based modelling in computer-aided design is developed for the purposes of supporting engineering design representation and automation . The approach of this paper uses a combination of a multi-level modelling design ; today, major design efforts are shifting toward higher lex els of abstraction, andthere is a trend to replace traditional hardxvare with programmable devices like micropro-cessors and PLAs. The increasing complexity of integrated circuits has made the problem of