VLSI Design Environments investigates design alternatives such as object oriented data modelling. The difficulty of automating chip architecture designs is caus

This volume is a documentation of a workshop which brought together active researchers in the field of CAD for hardware design. The main features are as follows

This practical, tool-independent guide to designing digital circuits takes a unique, top-down approach, reflecting the nature of the design process in industry.

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