October 2003
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
5h 15m
English
EDA is evolving rapidly to address the many new design issues facing the chip designer. We mentioned a few of these issues previously. The trends associated with the overall design environment include:
Integrated Design Suites
Run-Time Control
Distributed Design
System Design Links to Chip Design
Design tools are moving from (possibly incompatible) point tools to integrated suites of compatible tools. Some integrated suites simply use a compatible data transfer format to move data from tool to tool. Others use a common data structure or database to allow tools to share access to common data.
Interface formats for files or data may be proprietary or non-proprietary, open or closed. Proprietary ...
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