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The Synthesis Approach to Digital System Design

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Petra Michel

    1. Siemens AG, Germany

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  2. Ulrich Lauther

    1. Siemens AG, Germany

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  3. Peter Duzy

    1. Siemens AG, Germany

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 170)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction to Synthesis

    • Ulrich Lauther
    Pages 1-14

  3. Hardware Description Languages and their Relevance to Synthesis

    • Andreas Hohl
    Pages 15-37

  4. Logic-Level Synthesis

    • Michael Pilsl
    Pages 39-70

  5. Technology Mapping

    • Anton Langmaier
    Pages 71-86

  6. Register-Transfer Level Synthesis

    • Harald Vollmer, Norbert Wehn
    Pages 87-114

  7. High-Level Synthesis

    • Sabine März
    Pages 115-219

  8. System-Level Synthesis

    • Wolfgang Glunz, Andreas Pyttel, Gerd Venzl
    Pages 221-260

  9. Formal Methods for Synthesis

    • Holger Busch, Hans Nusser, Torsten Rössel
    Pages 261-301

  10. Synthesis Related Aspects of Simulation

    • Franz J. Rammig
    Pages 303-333

  11. Synthesis Related Aspects in Testing

    • Jean Armaos, Wolfgang Glunz
    Pages 335-372

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 373-415
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Over the past decade there has been a dramatic change in the role played by design automation for electronic systems. Ten years ago, integrated circuit (IC) designers were content to use the computer for circuit, logic, and limited amounts of high-level simulation, as well as for capturing the digitized mask layouts used for IC manufacture. The tools were only aids to design-the designer could always find a way to implement the chip or board manually if the tools failed or if they did not give acceptable results. Today, however, design technology plays an indispensable role in the design ofelectronic systems and is critical to achieving time-to-market, cost, and performance targets. In less than ten years, designers have come to rely on automatic or semi­ automatic CAD systems for the physical design ofcomplex ICs containing over a million transistors. In the past three years, practical logic synthesis systems that take into account both cost and performance have become a commercial reality and many designers have already relinquished control ofthe logic netlist level of design to automatic computer aids. To date, only in certain well-defined areas, especially digital signal process­ ing and telecommunications. have higher-level design methods and tools found significant success. However, the forces of time-to-market and growing system complexity will demand the broad-based adoption of high-level, automated methods and tools over the next few years.

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'I wholeheartedly recommend the use of this text in all high-level design aids and for all users of such system.' Microprocessors and Microsystems 18:8 1994

Editors and Affiliations

  • Siemens AG, Germany

    Petra Michel, Ulrich Lauther, Peter Duzy

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