Overview
- Editors:
-
-
Magdy A. Bayoumi
-
The University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
Access this book
Other ways to access
Table of contents (10 chapters)
-
-
- N. A. Ramakrishna, Magdy A. Bayoumi
Pages 1-41
-
-
- Baher S. Haroun, Mohamed I. Elmasry
Pages 93-130
-
- Miodrag Potkonjak, Jan Rabaey
Pages 131-167
-
- Ching-Yi Wang, Keshab K. Parhi
Pages 169-205
-
- Phillip Duncan, Shobana Swamy, Steve Sprouse, Daniel Potasz, Rajeev Jain, William Cammack et al.
Pages 207-218
-
- Michaël F. X. B. van Swaaij, Frank H. M. Franssen, Francky V. M. Catthoor, Hugo J. De Man
Pages 219-259
-
- Bertrand Zavidovique, Christian Fortunel, Georges Quenot, Abdelhakim Safir, Jocelyn Serot, François Verdier
Pages 261-318
-
-
- A. Ast, R. W. Hartenstein, H. Reinig, K. Schmidt, M. Weber
Pages 365-394
-
Back Matter
Pages 395-399
About this book
Designing VLSI systems represents a challenging task. It is a transfonnation among different specifications corresponding to different levels of design: abstraction, behavioral, stntctural and physical. The behavioral level describes the functionality of the design. It consists of two components; static and dynamic. The static component describes operations, whereas the dynamic component describes sequencing and timing. The structural level contains infonnation about components, control and connectivity. The physical level describes the constraints that should be imposed on the floor plan, the placement of components, and the geometry of the design. Constraints of area, speed and power are also applied at this level. To implement such multilevel transfonnation, a design methodology should be devised, taking into consideration the constraints, limitations and properties of each level. The mapping process between any of these domains is non-isomorphic. A single behavioral component may be transfonned into more than one structural component. Design methodologies are the most recent evolution in the design automation era, which started off with the introduction and subsequent usage of module generation especially for regular structures such as PLA's and memories. A design methodology should offer an integrated design system rather than a set of separate unrelated routines and tools. A general outline of a desired integrated design system is as follows: * Decide on a certain unified framework for all design levels. * Derive a design method based on this framework. * Create a design environment to implement this design method.
Editors and Affiliations
-
The University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA
Magdy A. Bayoumi
