An architecture for application of artificial intelligence to design
DAC '84 Proceedings of the 21st Design Automation Conference
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During the past two decades, we have learned that design automation is increasingly the only viable way to deal with the complexity of electronic circuits. And DA will continue to thrive in the future because of ever-increasing complexity. Following the development of the transistor and the integrated circuit, electronic desings grew almost exponentially in numbers of components and interconnections. Unfortunately, so did the design effort and the potential for errors, as unwelcome effects. The automation of electronic designs attacked this complexity to save labor and improve quality. My company, Bell Labs, designs hundreds of VLSI chips each year and thousands of circuit packs. Without design automation there is no way we could dot it—not in the required time and not with the available resources. Without DA, for example, designing and debugging our 32-bit microprocessor would have been virtually impossible.