Design Methodologies and Tools

The developments in an electronic technology can make it possible to fabricate hardware components which contain millions of transistors. The trend of increasing complexity has continued for some time. Recent estimations point out that the number of transistors per chip grows 10 times every six years and the speed of chips increases 10 times every eight years. In this situation, designers have to learn new methodologies to handle increased complexity in their designs. Researchers and CAD vendors, on the other hand, have to develop new methods tools which can offer an appropriate support for a designer.