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Preface
New applications enabled by advances in semiconductor manufacturing technology
continue to grow at an amazing rate.
Electronic design automation (EDA) has driven advances in design technologies
for the past 30 years and will continue to do so.
The fast and continuing evolution of design technology and the enormous
growth in the complexity and sophistication of an EDA system has made it such
that very few people can master all fronts of this field
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While a comprehensive treatment of all EDA subjects is infeasible for either
the undergraduate or entry-level graduate VLSI curriculum, integrating more
EDA subjects into existing VLSI and logic design courses is essential for giving
the students a balanced, and more accurate, view of modern system-on-chip
(SOC) design.
Each chapter of this book follows a specific format.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to electronic design automation (EDA).
Chapter 2 covers fundamental complementary metal oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) design principles and techniques that are required knowledge for the
understanding of system-on-chip (SOC) designs and EDA applications.
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Chapter 4 introduces the fundamentals of algorithms that are essential to
EDA tasks including synthesis, verification, and test.
Chapter 5 begins with electronic-system-level (ESL) design modeling and
high-level synthesis – the first step of EDA after a design is specified for implementation.
