The design environment for the Stellar GS1000

Author

Schurmann, Bruce ; Crudele, Les

fYear

1989

fDate

Feb. 27 1989-March 3 1989

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

522

Abstract

The GS1000 is a graphics supercomputer constructed from 2 million gates in a CMOS gate-array technology allowing approximately 50 K gates per chip. The size and complexity of the hardware required a top-down, integrated design process. CAE (computer-aided engineering) tools for schematic capture, simulation, and automatic test-pattern generation were purchased and combined with proprietary tools to form an integrated design environment. The proprietary tools provide functionality missing in commercially available tools, as well as the basic integration mechanism and a high degree of automation in the Stellar environment.<>

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; computer graphic equipment; parallel processing; CAE; CMOS gate-array technology; Stellar GS1000; automatic test-pattern generation; complexity; computer-aided engineering; design environment; functionality; graphics supercomputer; integrated design; simulation; size; top-down; CMOS technology; Computational modeling; Computer aided engineering; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Design engineering; Hardware; Process design; Space technology; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

COMPCON Spring '89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1909-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1989.301986

Filename

301986