Browsing in chip design database

Authors:
David Gedye;Randy Katz
Affiliations:
Computer Science Division, 571 Evans Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;Computer Science Division, 571 Evans Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Venue:
DAC '88 Proceedings of the 25th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
Year:
1988

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Abstract

A design browser is a tool for exploring the interconnected web of design objects managed by a CAD database. The browser described in this paper is the first such tool to present this information graphically—directed graphs are drawn to show the relationships that exist between objects in the database. Since graphs can become very large, techniques referred to as rectangular and hourglass pruning have been developed to reduce the information displayed to a manageable level. This browser allows designers to visualize the rich, multidimensional structure of their designs.