Design Automation, Languages, and Simulations

• Provides a concise, authoritative handbook focused on VLSI design languages, design automation, and simulations
• Summarizes the major parts of design languages, what they express, and how they are used to design and implement digital hardware
• Contains a section addressing the system-level design of application-specific systems
• Includes a chapter on analog circuit simulators and the theory behind them.

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 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.

Contents

• Internet Based Micro-Electric Design Automation (IMEDA) Framework
• System-Level Design
• Synthesis at the Register Transfer Level and the Behavioural Level
• Performance Modeling and Analysis in VHDL
• Embedded Computing Systems and Hardware/Software Co-Design
• Design Automation Technology Roadmap
• Design Languages
• Hardware Description in Verilog: An Overview
• Analog Circuit Simulation
• Interconnect Modeling and Simulation
• Power Simulation and Estimation in VLSI Circuits