DocumentCode :
1488549
Title :
A survey of digital design reuse
Author :
Jacome, Margarida F. ; Peixoto, Helvio P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
Volume :
18
Issue :
3
fYear :
2001
fDate :
5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
98
Lastpage :
107
Abstract :
As integrated circuit technologies advance toward higher performance, greater densities, and increasing system complexity, CAD tools and design methodologies struggle to keep pace. Managing the formidable complexity of the design process is one of the main challenges to IC design. Disseminating design reuse is central to bringing the design effort´s complexity back to a manageable size. Effective reuse, though, takes more than just gathering predesigned components in a library. Reuse-oriented policies and strategies must permeate the entire design process, from the methodologies themselves to the final designs. In this article, we provide a brief overview of the state of the art in design reuse for digital systems. We also discuss the challenges posed to this discipline by the recent trend toward integrating processor cores in high-volume application specific integrated circuits
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; circuit CAD; computational complexity; CAD tools; design methodologies; digital design reuse; high-volume application specific integrated circuits; integrated circuit technologies; reuse-oriented policies; survey; system complexity; Automatic testing; Built-in self-test; Documentation; Guidelines; Hardware; Process design; Silicon; Software libraries; Standardization; Stress;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0740-7475
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/54.922806
Filename :
922806
Link To Document :
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