Design frameworks have become an important infrastructure for building complex design systems. Electronic Design Automation Frameworks presents a state-of-the-art review of the latest research results covering this topic; results which are also of value for other design frameworks. The book contains the selected proceedings of the Fourth International Working Conference on Electronic Design Frameworks, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Gramado, Brazil, in November 1994.

Many of the advances achieved in framework technology during the last five years are reported in this volume. However, despite acknowledged developments and an enormous investment by the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) vendor industry and others, commercial framework products have been slow to appear on the market. Further, those which have appeared, have largely failed to meet original targets, whether in terms of scope or performance or both. Reaching a consensus on new international standards has been a painfully slow process, with rapid advances in technology often rendering new standards out of date even before their eventual appearance. A motivation for agreement on technical issues, not yet fully understood or researched, will be vital if a commercial basis to underpin future development is to be achieved. It is hoped this book will stimulate interchange between researchers, developers and users so that practical progress can be made, backed by the strong support of interested industries.

During the last decade the field of electronic design automation has changed from a small industry offering a random sampling of commercial and academic design automation tools, to a significant industry comprising offerings ranging from individual tools to total design systems, all based upon a set of emerging standards. Workers in electronic design automation are active in the development of integrated design environments and therefore in the development of frameworks. Frameworks for electronic design automation are rather similar to those for mechanical or software engineering, however the class of tools may differ resulting in differing specific requirements for the services to be offered. The present book documents the results of the 2nd Workshop on electronic design automation frameworks. The question of standardization is of special interest within the book, especially as related to VHDL, EDIF, PDES, and CFI. Also included are discussions of the role of specialized languages for specific environments, and how the user community can help standards to evolve.

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 technologies. Compiled from chapters contributed to CRC's best-selling VLSI Handbook, this volume of the Principles and Applications in Engineering series covers a broad rang

This volume of The Circuits and Filters Handbook, Third Edition focuses on computer aided design and design automation. In the first part of the book, international contributors address topics such as the modeling of circuit performances, symbolic analysis methods, numerical analysis methods, design by optimization, statistical design optimization, and physical design automation. In the second half of the text, they turn their attention to RF CAD, high performance simulation, formal verification, RTK behavioral synthesis, system-level design, an Internet-based micro-electronic design automation framework, performance modeling, and embedded computing systems design.

The second of two volumes in the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits Handbook, Second Edition, Electronic Design Automation for IC Implementation, Circuit Design, and Process Technology thoroughly examines real-time logic (RTL) to GDSII (a file format used to transfer data of semiconductor physical layout) design flow, analog/mixed signal design, physical verification, and technology computer-aided design (TCAD). Chapters contributed by leading experts authoritatively discuss design for manufacturability (DFM) at the nanoscale, power supply network design and analysis, design modeling, and much more. New to This Edition: Major updates appearing in the initial phases of the design flow, where the level of abstraction keeps rising to support more functionality with lower non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs Significant revisions reflected in the final phases of the design flow, where the complexity due to smaller and smaller geometries is compounded by the slow progress of shorter wavelength lithography New coverage of cutting-edge applications and approaches realized in the decade since publication of the previous edition—these are illustrated by new chapters on 3D circuit integration and clock design Offering improved depth and modernity, Electronic Design Automation for IC Implementation, Circuit Design, and Process Technology provides a valuable, state-of-the-art reference for electronic design automation (EDA) students, researchers, and professionals.

​This book serves as a single-source reference to key machine learning (ML) applications and methods in digital and analog design and verification. Experts from academia and industry cover a wide range of the latest research on ML applications in electronic design automation (EDA), including analysis and optimization of digital design, analysis and optimization of analog design, as well as functional verification, FPGA and system level designs, design for manufacturing (DFM), and design space exploration. The authors also cover key ML methods such as classical ML, deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), graph neural networks (GNNs), generative adversarial networks (GANs) and optimization methods such as reinforcement learning (RL) and Bayesian optimization (BO). All of these topics are valuable to chip designers and EDA developers and researchers working in digital and analog designs and verification.