An expert system approach to the design of application specific integrated circuits

Author

Al-Arian, Sami ; Kunamneni, H.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

11-13 Apr 1988

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The VLSI design problem was partitioned to different levels. The authors´ objective was to develop an expert system to transform the behavioral descriptions (as given by the user or contractor) to the algorithmic state machine level (where data and control flow are defined). Such a step cuts the time needed by the designer using traditional tools. This phase was done experimentally on the IBM PC using SMALL TALK, a frame-based expert system shell. An example of such a system is shown for the problem of traffic light control

Keywords

VLSI; circuit CAD; expert systems; IBM PC; SMALL TALK; VLSI design problem; algorithmic state machine level; application specific integrated circuits; behavioral descriptions; design; expert system approach; frame-based expert system shell; traffic light control; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Computer science; Design engineering; Expert systems; Fabrication; Process design; System testing; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '88., IEEE Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1988.194806

Filename

194806