Ideas: a tool for VLSI CAD

Author

Kumar, A. ; Kashyap, V. ; Sherlekar, S.D. ; Venkatesh, G. ; Biwas, Soma ; Kumar, Ajit ; Bhatt, P.C.P. ; Kumar, Sudhakar

Volume

6

Issue

5

fYear

1989

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

57

Abstract

The authors describe the Ideas integrated design automation system being developed in India. Ideas is based on a new high-level hardware description language, called Ideal (integrated design automation language), which incorporates several features that allow it to model both event-driven and demand-driven behavior. Ideas is built on an object-oriented kernel and consists of a text-graphics front-end for Ideal, a simulator that uses a mixed interpretive and compiled mode, a microcode generator, and layout tools.<>

Keywords

VLSI; circuit layout CAD; electronic engineering computing; Ideal; Ideas; VLSI CAD; compiled mode; demand-driven; event-driven; high-level hardware description language; integrated design automation language; integrated design automation system; layout tools; microcode generator; object-oriented kernel; simulator; text-graphics front-end; tool; Buildings; Design automation; Design optimization; Hardware design languages; Kernel; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Switches; Synthesizers; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Design & Test of Computers, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7475

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/54.43079

Filename

43079