A rapid prototype wafer scale system design for signal and data processing

The authors describe a WSI (wafer scale integration) rapid prototype system design project. Applications which can be implemented as WSI systems are being developed at three universities (alpha sites). A single WSI design is being developed which can be rapidly restructured to meet the system requirements of each university. A system design verification approach that involves a common CAD (computer-aided design) tool base for high-level modeling has been defined by the multiuniversity team. Each alpha site is developing high-level models for their architecture using VHDL (VHSIC hardware description language), and the physical wafer structure will be automatically mapped to the wafer from the VHDL model