VLSI is an important area of electronic and computer engineering. However, there are few
textbooks available for undergraduate/postgraduate study of VLSI design automation and …

From the Publisher: This text treats the physical design of very large scale integrated circuits
gradually and systematically. It examines the design problem and the design process with …

This paper describes behavioral compilation tools built for use in an intelligent silicon
compiler. These tools allow the user or an expert system to compile behavioral descriptions …

This paper describes a fully automatic standard-cell layoutsynthesis system, CELLERITY.
The system is flexible insupporting a wide variety of process technologies and a range …

As VLSI technology improves, the number of devices that can be built on a chip, and the
speed of those devices continue to increase. These improvements allow much more …

This book is concerned with advances in serial-data computa tional architectures, and the
CAD tools for their implementation in silicon. The bit-serial tradition at Edinburgh University …

A description is given of a program, Excellerator, which automatically generates full-custom
symbolic CMOS cell layouts. The input is a transistor-level netlist with optimal constraints on …

A fast algorithm is proposed for the transistor-chaining problem in CMOS functional cell
layout based on the layout style of T. Uehara and WM van Cleemput (1981). The algorithm …

An automatic layout generation system, called LiB, for the small-scale integrated (SSI) cells
used in CMOS VLSI design, is presented. LiB takes a transistor-level circuit schematic in …

In this paper we describe an expert system for layout generation in a hierarchical VLSI
design system. It applies a combination of rule-and algorithmic-based techniques on a new …