A PC-based VLSI design and test system for education

Author

Soma, Mani

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

31

Issue

1

fYear

1988

fDate

2/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

31

Abstract

A very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design system has been installed on IBM PC-AT computers to help teach integrated circuit design and test at the University of Washington. The PC-based system offers a reasonably complete set of tools for layout and test application. Since each PC is a single-user system, the performance of these tools exceeds that of larger time-sharing computers, assuming more than four users are doing layout at the same time. The computing strategy and technical implementation of the VLSI tool set on the PC-ATs is presented. The successes and problems of the system, as well as future plans for tool improvements, are discussed

Keywords

IBM computers; VLSI; education; integrated circuit technology; integrated circuit testing; microcomputer applications; IBM PC-AT computers; IC design teaching; IC test teaching; University of Washington; VLSI design system; VLSI tool set; computing strategy; education; Circuit testing; Computer displays; Computer science education; Costs; Integrated circuit synthesis; Integrated circuit testing; System testing; Time sharing computer systems; Very large scale integration; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.2276

Filename

2276