Increasing digital system complexity and integration density motivate automation of the integrated circuit design process. High-level synthesis is a promising method of increasing designer productivity. Continued process scaling and increasing integration density result in increased power consumption, power density, and temperature. High-level synthesis for integrated circuit (IC) power and the...

Semiconductor designers are now in the business of system design and significant productivity improvements can only be reached through an additional investment upstream in architectural understanding. Chip layout strategies shall now result from such upstream decisions implying new developments in precharacterized cells used at the breadboard level, functional simulation using custom CAD tools....

The integrated circuit design of a switched-capacitor filter for Bluetooth specifications is described. It was based on the optimum allocation of poles and zeros to generate a transfer function with unequal numerator and denominator orders, so that a direct-form structure with reduced number of opamps and low sensitivity to capacitor ratio errors were obtained. It was designed for implementatio...

The synthesis of heat integrated multi-component distillation systems is complex due to its huge search space for structural combination and optimization computation. To provide a systematic approach and tools for the synthesis design of distillation systems, a new method for modeling heat integrated columns is presented, and the operating cost objective function is minimized by improved harmon...

During the past few decades advances in semiconductor technology have had only modest implications for the design and verification of integrated systems. While "deep-submicron" effects created new challenges for guaranteeing electrical integrity and necessitated the bundling of traditionally separated design steps such as logic synthesis and physical layout, the general integrated circuit desig...

The rapidly increasing complexity and quality requirements of integrated circuit design can only be addressed effectively by a design system architecture that supports very efficient, high-quality sharing of IC design data. The OpenAccess Coalition is delivering an industry standard Application Programming Interface (API) and Information Model (IM) that provides access to a shared database as a...

A holistic vehicle simulation capability is necessary for front-loading component, subsystem, and controller design, the early detection of component subsystem design flaws, as well model-based calibration powertrain control modules. The current document explores concept by means reviewing trends in automotive system available solutions terms model interfaces neutral modelling environments. rev...