Computer-aided design (CAD)

Analog design is one of the more difficult aspects of electrical engineering.

High Data Rate Transmitter Circuits is a practical guide and introduction to the design of key RF building blocks used in high data rate transmitters.

Memory Architecture Exploration for Programmable Embedded Systems addresses efficient exploration of alternative memory architectures, assisted by a "e;compiler-in-the-loop"e; that allows effective matching of the target application to the processor-memory architecture.

Modern System-on-Chip designs are increasingly mixed-signal designs that require efficient systematic design methodologies and supporting computer-aided design (CAD) tools to manage the design complexity in the available design time, that is ever decreasing due to tightening time-to-market constraints.

Are memory applications more critical than they have been in the past?

As integrated circuit (IC) feature sizes scaled below a quarter of a micron, thereby defining the deep submicron (DSM) era, there began a gradual shift in the impact on performance due to the metal interconnections among the active circuit components.

Analog Behavioral Modeling With The Verilog-A Language provides the IC designer with an introduction to the methodologies and uses of analog behavioral modeling with the Verilog-A language.

In the first part the AMGIE analog synthesis system is described.

Fault Injection Techniques and Tools for Embedded Systems Reliability Evaluation intends to be a comprehensive guide to Fault Injection techniques used to evaluate the dependability of a digital system.

The evolution of electronic systems is pushing traditional silicon designers into areas that require new domains of expertise.

Hugo de Man Professor Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Senior Research Fellow IMEC The steady evolution of hardware, software and communications technology is rapidly transforming the PC- and dot.

Engineering productivity in integrated circuit product design and - velopment today is limited largely by the effectiveness of the CAD tools used.

In the past decade, substrate noise has had a constant and significant impact on the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.

This book is the first in a series of three dedicated to advanced topics in Mixed-Signal IC design methodologies.

CTL is a language that is used to represent test information.

by Kurt Keutzer Those looking for a quick overview of the book should fast-forward to the Introduction in Chapter 1.

CHAPTER 6 Architecting Testbenches 221 Reusable Verification Components 221 Procedural Interface 225 Development Process 226 Verilog Implementation 227 Packaging Bus-Functional Models 228 Utility Packages 231 VHDL Implementation 237 Packaging Bus-Functional Procedures 238 240 Creating a Test Harness 243 Abstracting the Client/Server Protocol Managing Control Signals 246 Multiple Server Instances 247 Utility Packages 249 Autonomous Generation and Monitoring 250 Autonomous Stimulus 250 Random Stimulus 253 Injecting Errors 255 Autonomous Monitoring 255 258 Autonomous Error Detection Input and Output Paths 258 Programmable Testbenches 259 Configuration Files 260 Concurrent Simulations 261 Compile-Time Configuration 262 Verifying Configurable Designs 263 Configurable Testbenches 265 Top Level Generics and Parameters 266 Summary 268 CHAPTER 7 Simulation Management 269 Behavioral Models 269 Behavioral versus Synthesizable Models 270 Example of Behavioral Modeling 271 Characteristics of a Behavioral Model 273 x Writing Testbenches: Functional Verification of HDL Models Modeling Reset 276 Writing Good Behavioral Models 281 Behavioral Models Are Faster 285 The Cost of Behavioral Models 286 The Benefits of Behavioral Models 286 Demonstrating Equivalence 289 Pass or Fail?

VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies, Edition is a follow up book to the first edition of same book and to VHDL Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, first and second editions.

From a review of the Second Edition 'If you are new to the field and want to know what "e;all this Verilog stuff is about,"e; you've found the golden goose.

As the frequency of communication systems increases and the dimensions of transistors are reduced, more and more stringent performance requirements are placed on analog circuits.

xv From the Old to the New xvii Acknowledgments xxi 1 Verilog - A Tutorial Introduction 1 Getting Started 2 A Structural Description 2 Simulating the binaryToESeg Driver 4 Creating Ports For the Module 7 Creating a Testbench For a Module 8 11 Behavioral Modeling of Combinational Circuits Procedural Models 12 Rules for Synthesizing Combinational Circuits 13 14 Procedural Modeling of Clocked Sequential Circuits Modeling Finite State Machines 15 Rules for Synthesizing Sequential Systems 18 Non-Blocking Assignment ("e;

by Maq Mannan President and CEO, DSM Technologies Chairman of the IEEE 1364 Verilog Standards Group Past Chairman of Open Verilog International One of the major strengths of the Verilog language is the Programming Language Interface (PLI), which allows users and Verilog application developers to infinitely extend the capabilities of the Verilog language and the Verilog simulator.

The Verilog hardware description language (HDL) provides the ability to describe digital and analog systems.

Boundary-Scan, formally known as IEEE/ANSI Standard 1149.

I am honored and delighted to write the foreword to this very first book about SystemC.

The aim of Surviving the SOC Revolution: A Guide to Platform-Based Design is to provide the engineering community with a thorough understanding of the challenges involved when moving to system-on-a-chip and deliver a step-by-step methodology to get them there.

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems, Second Edition provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for an undergraduate digital logic design class.

System designers, computer scientists and engineers have c- tinuously invented and employed notations for modeling, speci- ing, simulating, documenting, communicating, teaching, verifying and controlling the designs of digital systems.

"e;Reuse Methodology Manual for System-on-a-Chip Designs, Third Edition"e; outlines a set of best practices for creating reusable designs for use in an SoC design methodology.

Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms is a textbook designed for courses on VLSI Logic Synthesis and Verification, Design Automation, CAD and advanced level discrete mathematics.

Design reuse techniques have become the subject of books, conferences, and podium discussions over the last few years.

Advanced ASIC Chip Synthesis: Using Synopsys(R) Design Compiler(R) Physical Compiler(R) and PrimeTime(R), Second Edition describes the advanced concepts and techniques used towards ASIC chip synthesis, physical synthesis, formal verification and static timing analysis, using the Synopsys suite of tools.

Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Third Edition covers all aspects of physical design.

A recent technological advance is the art of designing circuits to test themselves, referred to as a Built-In Self-Test (BIST).

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for undergraduate digital logic and computer design courses.

From a review of the Second Edition 'If you are new to the field and want to know what "e;all this Verilog stuff is about,"e; you've found the golden goose.

The modern electronic testing has a forty year history.

The modern wireless communication industry has put great demands on circuit designers for smaller, cheaper transceivers in the gigahertz frequency range.

Digital Systems Design and Prototyping: Using Field Programmable Logic and Hardware Description Languages, Second Edition covers the subject of digital systems design using two important technologies: Field Programmable Logic Devices (FPLDs) and Hardware Description Languages (HDLs).

Principles of Verifiable RTL Design: A Functional Coding Style Supporting Verification Processes in Verilog explains how you can write Verilog to describe chip designs at the RT-level in a manner that cooperates with verification processes.

System-On-a-Chip Verification: Methodology and Techniques is the first book to cover verification strategies and methodologies for SOC verification from system level verification to the design sign- off.

The Analog to Digital Converters represent one half of the link between the world we live in - analog - and the digital world of computers, which can handle the computations required in digital signal processing.

This book explores the governance of smart cities from a holistic approach, arguing that the creation of smart cities must consider the specific circumstances of each country to improve the preservation, revitalisation, liveability, and sustainability of urban areas.

Information Systems for the Fashion and Apparel Industry brings together trends and developments in fashion information systems, industrial case-studies, and insights from an international team of authors.

Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools typically support individual users in the automation of a set of tasks within a software development process.

During the past decade, technology has become more pervasive, encroaching more and more on our lives.

A structure is an assembly that serves an engineering function.

This collection of selected papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering (SCEE), held in St.

This book addresses Integrated Design Engineering (IDE), which represents a further development of Integrated Product Development (IPD) into an interdisciplinary model for both a human-centred and holistic product development.