October 2003
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
5h 15m
English
| Luigi: | Design entry or design capture tools allow the engineer to enter design ideas into the computer. Entry is done using either graphical symbols or textual descriptions. The design can be displayed in several forms or views.
Different tools work at different levels of design abstraction (or detail), so you need to understand what those are. Let me describe each for you. I'll explain the jargon as we go. Device modeling is the lowest level of abstraction and is used by physicists and IC manufacturers to model transistor devices. Most chip design starts at the next level of abstraction, circuit design. Circuit design uses diagrams with graphical symbols to represent devices such as transistors, resistors, or capacitors. ... |
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