toward higher performance, greater densities, and increasing system complexity, CAD tools and design methodologies struggle to keep pace. Managing the formidable complexity of the design process is one of the main challenges to IC design. Disseminating design reuse is central to bringing the design effort’s complexity back to a manageable size. Effective reuse, though, takes more than just gath...

Many claims have been made about the consequences of not documenting design rationale. The general perception is that designers and architects usually do not fully understand the critical role of systematic use and capture of design rationale. However, there is to date little empirical evidence available on what design rationale mean to practitioners, how valuable they consider it, and how they...

In a typical instance of a network design problem, we are given a directed or undirected graph G = (V,E), non-negative edge-costs ce for all e∈E, and our goal is to find a minimum-cost subgraph H of G that satisfies some design criteria. For example, we may wish to find a minimum-cost set of edges that induces a connected graph (this is the minimum-cost spanning tree problem), or we might want ...

The aim of this document is to provide the reader with an overview of low-power digital design trends. Several research publications and books have been studied by the author and the knowledge gained has been compiled into this report. Low-power techniques adopted at different levels of the design process are presented and industrial application examples are given.

Using all available subsurface information in the design of a 3-D seismic survey, we can better adjust the acquisition effort to the demands of illumination of the target horizon. I present a method that poses the choice of the acquisition parameters as an integer optimization problem. Rays are shot from grid points on the target reflector at uniform opening and azimuth angles and their emergen...

The paper argues the point that thanks to a recent shift of emphasis from logic based to autonomous, rational and interactive models of intelligent behaviour, artificial intelligence can now support engineering design better than ever before. Logic, however, provides still the best means for representing design objects and knowledge about them. Design synthesis, especially if executed in a conc...

The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem which is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this work, we review some of the most recent code constructions targeting the short block regime, and we compare then with both finitelength performance bounds and classica...