Aimed at practicing electrical engineers and computer scientists, this text covers the broad spectrum of design automation, design languages, and simulations. Frequent examples are used to illustrate the fundamental theory behind professional applications. A sampling of topics includes coordinating distributed design activities through the Internet, designing system-level application-specific systems, and using analog circuit simulators. Editor Chen is with the U. of Illinois at Chicago. The material in this book is taken from The VLSI Handbook , published in 2000 by CRC Press. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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 range of topics relevant to design automation, languages, and simulations. These include a collaborative framework that coordinates distributed design activities through the Internet, an overview of the Verilog hardware description language and its use in a design environment, hardware/software co-design, system-level design of application-specific systems, and analog circuit simulators.