An approach to design flow management in CAD frameworks [for VLSI]

The approach described is based on a parallel that can be established between the design flow and the logic design domains. The paper describes how these mappings can be used to apply the existing techniques and algorithms of the logic design process to the problem of design flow management, thus providing solutions for design flow specification, representation, synthesis, flow data management and flow execution, in CAD frameworks. A `design flow´ view in EDIF has been proposed. It can be used as a standard interchange format for migrating flows across frameworks