Graphical and digital media applications

The roots of the project which culminates with the writing of this book can be traced to the work on logic synthesis started in 1979 at the IBM Watson Research Center and at University of California, Berkeley.

Routing of VLSI chips is an important, time consuming, and difficult problem.

Circuit simulation has been a topic of great interest to the integrated circuit design community for many years.

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Pollutants released to the environment are distributed among the many environmental media such as air, water, soil, and vegetation, as the result of complex physical, chemical and biological processes.

This monograph represents a summary of our work in the last two years in applying the method of simulated annealing to the solution of problems that arise in the physical design of VLSI circuits.

This volume contains the proceedings of a workshop on Analog Integrated Neural Systems held May 8, 1989, in connection with the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

The goal of the research out of which this monograph grew, was to make annealing as much as possible a general purpose optimization routine.

The advent of computer aided design and the proliferation of computer aided design tools have been instrumental in furthering the state-of-the- art in integrated circuitry.

The summer school on VLSf GAD Tools and Applications was held from July 21 through August 1, 1986 at Beatenberg in the beautiful Bernese Oberland in Switzerland.

I am indebted to my thesis advisor, Michael Genesereth, for his guidance, inspiration, and support which has made this research possible.

This book, and the research it describes, resulted from a simple observation we made sometime in 1986.

Very large scale integration (VLSI) technologies are now maturing with a current emphasis toward submicron structures and sophisticated applications combining digital as well as analog circuits on a single chip.

Test generation is one of the most difficult tasks facing the designer of complex VLSI-based digital systems.

In the last few years CMOS technology has become increas- ingly dominant for realizing Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits.

Recently there has been increased interest in the development of computer-aided design programs to support the system level designer of integrated circuits more actively.

Searching Multimedia Databases by Content bridges the gap between the database and signal processing communities by providing the necessary background information for the reader and presenting it along with the intuition and mechanics of the best existing tools in each area.

Logic Synthesis Using Synopsys(R), Second Edition is for anyone who hates reading manuals but would still like to learn logic synthesis as practised in the real world.

In the early days of VLSI, the design of the power distribution for an integrated cir- cuit was rather simple.

Representations of Discrete Functions is an edited volume containing 13 chapter contributions from leading researchers with a focus on the latest research results.

Over the years there has been a large increase in the functionality available on a single integrated circuit.

Information Retrieval (IR) has concentrated on the development of information management systems to support user retrieval from large collections of homogeneous textual material.

Rapid Application Generation of Business and Finance Software describes a method for developing wide ranging computing applications with emerging software technologies.

Object-oriented techniques and languages have been proven to significantly increase engineering efficiency in software development.

High-Speed Networking for Multimedia Applications presents the latest research on the architecture and protocols for high-speed networks, focusing on communication support for distributed multimedia applications.

Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essentially the story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project that started in the late 1980's and from which has emerged a philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its role in the evolution of multimedia information systems.

Symbolic Boolean manipulation using binary decision diagrams (BDDs) has been successfully applied to a wide variety of tasks, particularly in very large scale integration (VLSI) computer-aided design (CAD).

Software Synthesis from Dataflow Graphs addresses the problem of generating efficient software implementations from applications specified as synchronous dataflow graphs for programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) used in embedded real- time systems.

Multimedia computing has emerged in the last few years as a major area of research.

Models in system design follow the general tendency in electronics in terms of size, complexity and difficulty of maintenance.

Multimedia computing has emerged in the last few years as a major area of research.

In system design, generation of high-level abstract models that can be closely associated with evolving lower-level models provides designers with the ability to incrementally `test' an evolving design against a model of a specification.

Current practice dictates the separation of the hardware and software development paths early in the design cycle.

Our purpose in writing this book was two-fold.

This book describes a new type of computer aided VLSI design tool, called a VLSI System Planning, that is meant to aid designers dur- ing the early, or conceptual, state of design.

Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems addresses the problems and challenges of handling several continuous- media data streams in networked multimedia environments.

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Input/Output in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems has attracted increasing attention over the last few years, as it has become apparent that input/output performance, rather than CPU performance, may be the key limiting factor in the performance of future systems.

Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies is a compendium of the state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems.

With the rapid growth of bandwidth demand from network users and the advances in optical technologies, optical networks with multiterabits- per-second capacity has received significant interest from both researchers and practitioners.

Wireless networking enables two or more computers to communicate using standard network protocols without network cables.

This book is a collection of articles studying various Steiner tree prob- lems with applications in industries, such as the design of electronic cir- cuits, computer networking, telecommunication, and perfect phylogeny.

Machine Vision technology is becoming an indispensible part of the manufacturing industry.

Dr AIvy Ray Smith Executive Vice President, Pixar The pOlyglot language of computer animation has arisen piecemeal as a collection of terms borrowed from geometry, film, video, painting, conventional animation, computer graphiCS, computer science, and publishing - in fact, from every older art or science which has anything to do with pictures and picture making.

With the SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) architecture and system software as the underlying foundation, Sun Microsys- terns is delivering a new model of computing-easy workgroup computing-to enhance the way people work, automating processes across groups, departments, and teams locally and globally.

PREFACE Getting Faster Answers About AutoCAD Whether you are a beginning AutoCAD user, a part-time user, or even a long-standing user, it is virtually impossible to remember every nuance and every option for every AutoCAD command and variable.

Engineers and scientists can use spreadsheets to help them quickly solve technical problems.

There is a growing social interest in developing vision-based vehicle guidance systems for improving traffic safety and efficiency and the environment.

Knowledge-Based Simulation: Methodology and Application represents a recent compilation of research material that reviews fundamental concepts of simulation methodology and knowledge-based simulation applications.