Digital design automation

  • Authors:
  • Cherrice Traver

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

As digital and other electronic circuits become smaller, faster, cheaper and easier to manufacture, their applications range from consumer products to space exploration. The advances in technology not only increase the variety of applications of these circuits, but also increase their potential functionality and complexity. The capabilities of the early computers with room-size dimensions can now be found in hand-held calculators. The challenge that this poses for the designers of these systems is how to build these complex systems rapidly, cheaply, and reliably. As might be expected, the solution comes in the form of software that runs on the most complex of electronic systems, the digital computer.