Fable: A programming-language solution to IC process automation problems

Authors:
Harold L. Ossher;Brian K. Reid
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Programming language issues in software systems
Year:
1983

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Abstract

The Stanford University Center for Integrated Systems is embarking on an ambitious project to formally characterize integrated circuit fabrication processes, and to provide a degree of automation of research and prototyping activities in the IC fabrication facility. A crucial component of this project is the ability to represent an IC fabrication “recipe” in a repeatable, transportable, device-independent fashion. We have designed the language Fable for this purpose: it offers some novel approaches to abstraction and modularity. We describe the problem, explain why we were forced to devise a new language rather than use an existing language, describe important properties of the Fable language, and give several examples.