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 …

The aim of this dissertation research is to develop a top-down design automation tool for
digital system design such as LSI and microprocessors. The overall goal of this project is to …

This paper is a brief introduction to the automation of the design of very-large-scale
integrated circuits (VLSI). The field of design automation has grown so large in the last …

Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) has become a necessity rather than a specialization for
electrical and computer engineers. This unique text provides Engineering and Computer …

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 …

Computer-aided engineering workstations are starting to make the breadboard obsolete--at
least for designers of systems based on random logic, standard cells, and gate arrays. Once …

In the last decade, many textbooks have been written about VLSI design. Some of them are
useful for a beginning student, while others are encyclopedic. This text falls somewhere in …

Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Second Edition is a core reference text for
graduate students and CAD professionals. Based on the very successful First Edition, it …

Over the past three decades, we have witnessed the remarkable growth of the
semiconductor industry from the invention of the transistor to an industry that is all-pervasive …

This book provides broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire EDA flow. EDA/VLSI
practitioners and researchers in need of fluency in an" adjacent" field will find this an …