VLSI CAD Tools and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. VLSI Design Strategies

   • Carlo H. Séquin

   Pages 1-17

3. Introduction to VLSI Design

   • Jonathan Allen

   Pages 19-55

4. Simulation Tools for VLSI

   • Christopher J. Terman

   Pages 57-103

5. Aspects of Computational Circuit Analysis

   • W. M. Coughran Jr., Eric Grosse, Donald J. Rose

   Pages 105-127

6. VLSI Circuit Analysis, Timing Verification and Optimization

   • Albert E. Ruehli, Daniel L. Ostapko

   Pages 129-146

7. CAD Tools for Mask Generation

   • Jonathan B. Rosenberg

   Pages 147-211

8. Design and Layout Generation at the Symbolic Level

   • Carlo H. Séquin

   Pages 213-231

9. Overview of the IDA System: A Toolset for VLSI Layout Synthesis

   • Dwight D. Hill, Kurt Keutzer, Wayne Wolf

   Pages 233-263

10. CAD Programming in an Object Oriented Programming Environment

    • James Cherry

    Pages 265-294

11. Trends in Commercial VLSI Microprocessor Design

    • Nick Tredennick

    Pages 295-325

12. Experience with CAD Tools for a 32-Bit VLSI Microprocessor

    • David R. Ditzel, Alan D. Berenbaum

    Pages 327-350

13. Overview of a 32-Bit Microprocessor Design Project

    • Pat Bosshart

    Pages 351-380

14. Architecture of Modern VLSI Processors

    • Priscilla M. Lu, Don E. Blahut, Kevin S. Grant

    Pages 381-406

15. A Comparison of Microprocessor Architectures in View of Code Generation by a Compiler

    • N. Wirth

    Pages 407-428

16. Fault Tolerant VLSI Multicomputers

    • Carlo H. Séquin, Yuval Tamir

    Pages 429-449

17. The VLSI Design Automation Assistant: An IBM System/370 Design

    • T. J. Kowalski

    Pages 451-474

18. Higher Level Simulation and CHDLs

    • Reiner W. Hartenstein, Udo Welters

    Pages 475-500

19. New Trends in VLSI Testing

    • G. Saucier, C. Bellon, M. Crastes De Paulet

    Pages 501-513

20. VLSI Testing: DFT Strategies and CAD Tools

    • M. Gerner, M. Johansson

    Pages 515-552

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 into the realities of CAD tools and their applications to VLSI design. This book contains articles by all 18 invited speakers that 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 in VLSI testing and testing strategies are given in Chapters 18 and 19.

• VLSI
• algorithms
• computer-aided design (CAD)
• design
• layout
• microprocessor
• simulation
• testing

• Institute for Integrated Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

  Wolfgang Fichtner, Martin Morf

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