A vertically integrated VLSI design environment

  • Authors:

  • Jonathan Rosenberg;David Boyer;John Dallen;Stephen Daniel;Charles Poirier;John Poulton;Durward Rogers;Neil Weste

  • Affiliations:

  • Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;Microelectronics Systems Laboratory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina;Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

  • Venue:
  • DAC '83 Proceedings of the 20th Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

A VLSI design system called VIVID is the heart of a newly developed, vertically integrated design environment. This environment provides support for all phases of design from high-level system specification through on-site fabrication to construction of prototype systems. Key features already Implemented include: the use of a circuit description language at the level of a silicon assembler; a fast, highly interactive combination floor planner and layout editor; fast interactive timing simulation; and layout made free from design-rule constraints by the use of virtual-grid compaction. Functional specification and verification, automated routing, standard cell layout, and semi-automated layout from schematics are being built upon the foundation formed by VIVID.