VSI standards: using them today, planning for tomorrow

Author

Hahn, Mark

Author_Institution

Cadence Design Syst. Inc., San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

15-17 Sep 1998

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

72

Abstract

The VSI Alliance has made significant progress in standardizing the data to be created by a virtual component (VC) provider and passed to a system chip integrator. The VC provider is the author of a block, who completes the design of the VC as a stand-alone block, prepares a number of data files describing the block, then passes those data files to a system chip integrator. The system chip integrator is responsible for the design of a chip which may use a number of different VCs, each of which is described by the VSI deliverables. This paper describes the standards which are available today for the VSI deliverables and how they can be used. It also provides an update on the work currently going on in VSI

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; circuit CAD; integrated circuit layout; standards; VSI Alliance; VSI standards; deliverables; stand-alone block; system chip integrator; virtual component provider; Design methodology; Design optimization; Libraries; Rivers; Routing; Signal synthesis; System-on-a-chip; Time to market; Usability; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wescon/98

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1095-791X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5078-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WESCON.1998.716422

Filename

716422