Developing a Smalltalk/V application

The paper describes the development of a prototype VLSI circuit editor in Smalltalk/V. The motivation for the development was to explore the utility of the Smalltalk/V object-oriented language in the construction of an application that would form just one module of a potentially much more extensive and complex system-a complete VLSI design system. Thus the application itself and the development methodology had to anticipate the integration of that application into a series of processes that would extend both up- and down-stream (e.g. logical and functional design stages and circuit synthesis and testing etc.)