Handbook of VLSI Chip Design and Expert Systems (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Handbook of VLSI Chip Design and Expert Systems 2
Copyright Page 3
Table of Contents 8
PREFACE 4
Acknowledgments 7
Chapter 1. VLSI CHIP DESIGN 12
1.1 COMPUTER-AIDED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEM DESIGN 12
1.2 CADCAS TOOLS IN CHIP DESIGN 29
1.3 COMPUTERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 36
Chapter 2. PROGRAMMING TOOLS IN CHIP DESIGN 48
2.1 PERSONAL COMPUTERS 48
2.2 OPERATING SYSTEMS 60
2.3 DATABASE SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS 73
Chapter 3. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN PROGRAMMING 92
3.1 FOURTH-GENERATION LANGUAGES 92
3.2 NON VON NEUMANN ARCHITECTURES 102
3.3 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 119
3.4 LISP 128
3.5 LOGIC PROGRAMMING 135
3.6 THE OBJECT-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT 158
Chapter 4. EXPERT SYSTEMS 170
4.1 EXPERT SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS 170
4.2 KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION 183
4.3 KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING 194
4.4 PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS 205
4.5 APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT SYSTEMS 213
Chapter 5. VLSI SYSTEM DESIGN AND EXPERT SYSTEMS 232
5.1 LOGIC-CIRCUIT DESIGN 232
5.2 HIGH-LEVEL SYSTEM DESIGN 252
5.3 ASIC DESIGN 296
Chapter 6. DESIGN VERIFICATION AND EXPERT SYSTEMS 314
6.1 SYSTEM SIMULATION 314
6.2 LOGIC SIMULATION 321
6.3 CIRCUIT SIMULATION 345
Chapter 7. VLSI TESTING AND EXPERT SYSTEMS 360
7.1 FAULT DIAGNOSIS 360
7.2 TEST GENERATION 375
7.3 DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY 400
Chapter 8. LAYOUT DESIGN AND EXPERT SYSTEMS 418
8.1 PLACEMENT AND ROUTING 418
8.2 LAYOUT DESIGN OF BLOCK STRUCTURES 427
8.3 LOCAL ROUTING 455
8.4 LAYOUT VERIFICATION 473
Chapter 9. MODERN DESIGN METHODOLOGIES 478
9.1 HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION 478
9.2 WORKSTATIONS FOR CHIP DESIGN 486
9.3 PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS 491
REFERENCES 526
INDEX 578