Chapter 1. Introduction
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Electronic design automation (EDA) is at the center of technology advances in improving human life and use every day. Given an electronic system modeled at the electronic system level (ESL), EDA automates the design and test processes of verifying the correctness of the ESL design against the specifications of the electronic system, taking the ESL design through various synthesis and verification steps, and finally testing the manufactured electronic system to ensure that it meets the specifications and quality requirements of the electronic system. The electronic system can also be a printed circuit board (PCB) or simply an integrated circuit (IC). The integrated circuit can be a system-on-chip (SOC), ...
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