The war of the roses: designers versus tool developers

Author

Beece, D.K. ; Chappell, B. ; Damiano, Rossana ; Manoli, Yiannos ; Schulz, Stefan E. ; Kuehlmann, Andreas

Author_Institution

IBM Corp.

fYear

1997

fDate

12-15 Oct 1997

Firstpage

317

Lastpage

320

Abstract

Circuit designers and tool developers must cooperate to enable the development of large integrated systems. However, both sides approach the actual design task from different perspectives which may result in problems ranging from simple misunderstanding to assigning blame for delayed schedules and failed projects. Often, designers think tool people are solving the wrong problems and only want to write papers, whereas tool developers believe designers are asking for too much, have no clue about NP-completeness, and are just too stupid to use their great programs. This panel discusses the relationship between designers and tool people and attempt to propose innovative solutions to existing problems

Keywords

circuit CAD; computational complexity; NP-completeness; circuit designers; delayed schedules; designers; tool developers; Circuits; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Design automation; Environmental economics; Fingers; Hardware; Heuristic algorithms; Microprocessor chips; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1997. ICCD '97. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8206-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1997.628888

Filename

628888