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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 136)
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The time has come for high-level synthesis. When research into synthesizing hardware from abstract, program-like de scriptions started in the early 1970' s, there was no automated path from the register transfer design produced by high-level synthesis to a complete hardware imple mentation. As a result, it was very difficult to measure the effectiveness of high level synthesis methods; it was also hard to justify to users the need to automate architecture design when low-level design had to be completed manually. Today's more mature CAD techniques help close the gap between an automat ically synthesized design and a manufacturable design. Market pressures encour age designers to make use of any and all automated tools. Layout synthesis, logic synthesis, and specialized datapath generators make it feasible to quickly imple ment a register-transfer design in silicon,leaving designers more time to consider architectural improvements. As IC design becomes more automated, customers are increasing their demands; today's leading edge designers using logic synthesis systems are training themselves to be tomorrow's consumers of high-level synthe sis systems. The need for very fast turnaround, a competitive fabrication market WhlCh makes small-quantity ASIC manufacturing possible, and the ever growing co:n plexity of the systems being designed, all make higher-level design automaton inevitable.
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Front Matter
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Book Title: High-Level VLSI Synthesis
Editors: Raul Camposano, Wayne Wolf
Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3966-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9159-3Published: 31 May 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6771-0Published: 13 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-3966-7Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0893-3405
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 390
Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design