Essential Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

Mark D. Birnbaum

234 pages, parution le 11/12/2003

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Purpose of This Book

The tremendous increase in the use of tiny electronic devices is common knowledge. We find them everywhere today, in cars, household appliances, telephones, music, and business equipment. The typical car or house uses dozens of them.

These devices are called microchips or integrated circuits (ICs). Today a single IC can do more than an entire roomful of equipment just a decade ago. Integrated circuits are small enough to hold in your hand, yet contain millions of tiny electronic components.

Engineers create detailed design plans to make ICs, similar to an architect's building plans. Architects use computer tools to design a building and predict the structure's response to storms or earthquakes. Similarly, IC designers use computer program tools to design an IC, test its performance, and verify its behavior. We refer to the tools as electronic design automation (EDA).

An entire industry has evolved to provide these tools to aid the IC designers. This book introduces readers to the EDA industry. It discusses both the technical and business aspects of EDA in clear non-technical language without equations. The text briefly describes the related semiconductor industry issues and evolving chip design problems addressed by the EDA tools. A unique, dialog format presents the technical material in an easy-to-read manner.

The book focuses solely on EDA for IC design, intentionally excluding other design automation areas (e.g., printed circuit boards and mechanical design). The text gives generic tool descriptions since company and product names change rapidly.

Introduction to EDA
The Business of EDA
The User Perspective
Overview of EDA Tools and Design Concepts
Electronic System-Level Design Tools
Front-end Design Tools
Back-end Design Tools (Physical Design)
Trends

Appendix A: Elementary Electricity
Appendix B: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Appendix C: Signals to Software
Appendix D: Metrics
Appendix E: References
Appendix F: ICs, IP, and SoC
Appendix G: Glossary-Terms and Acronyms
Index

L'auteur - Mark D. Birnbaum

brings unique qualifications to this subject, having worked as an EDA user, manager, developer and tool vendor. Mr. Birnbaum's experience at nine major computer, semiconductor, EDA and research organizations spans the electronics design world from system products to IC chips. He has held senior positions in engineering management, consulting, R&D, product development, test, and marketing, led two standards groups, and taught microelectronics and EDA classes.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Mark D. Birnbaum
Parution	11/12/2003
Nb. de pages	234
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	495g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780131828292
ISBN13	978-0-13-182829-2