ASIC VLSI design and development in MOSart-a focus on logic analysis and automated test vector generation

The MOSart comprehensive CAD/CAE system for the design and development of cell-based ASICs and full custom VLSI circuits. The MOSart design environment encompasses a wide variety of applications, i.e. design tools with which a design team can implement an ASIC. The computer-aided-engineering capabilities of MOSart through which the analysis of simulation results, along with the automated generation of ATE-compatible test vector patterns, are obtained. Three of MOSart´s application tools, namely, VECTORGEN, SIMGEN and LAS, are considered. VECTORGEN and SIMGEN are application tools developed specifically to assist with the task of verifying a given ASIC design. With the aid of VECTORGEN and SIMGEN, simulator stimuli and the creation of ATE-compatible test vector patterns are accomplished. LAS (logic analysis system) provides systematic and automated procedures that facilitate the analysis of the behavior of a given logic block including the top level block of a completed design