Electronic design automation

asynchronous digital system, in contrast, has no global clock: instead, ...more on Wikipedia about "Asynchronous Systems"

ATPG, or Automatic test pattern generation is an electronic design automation tool that attempts to find an input (or test) sequence that, when applied to a digital circuit, enables testers to distinguish between the correct circuit behavior and the faulty circuit behavior caused by a particular fault. The effectiveness of ATPG is measured by the fault coverage achieved for the fault model and the number of generated vectors, which should be directly proportional to test application time. ATPG efficiency is another important consideration. It is influenced by the fault model under consideration, the type of circuit under test ( full scan, synchronous sequential, or asynchronous sequential), the level of abstraction used to represent the circuit under test (gate, register-transistor, switch), and the required test quality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automatic test pattern generation"

reference for the movement of data within that system. The clock distribution network distributes the clock signal(s) from a common point to all the elements that need it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clock Distribution Networks"

The Design Automation Conference, or DAC is a combination of a technical conference and a trade show, both specializing in electronic design automation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Design Automation Conference"

Design closure is the process by which a VLSI design is modified from its initial description to meet a growing list of design constraints and objectives. ...more on Wikipedia about "Design closure"

Design flows are the explicit combination of electronic design automation tools to accomplish the design of an integrated circuit. Moore's law has driven the entire IC implementation RTL to GDSII design flows from one which uses primarily ...more on Wikipedia about "Design flow (EDA)"

methodology called design for manufacturability (DFM) includes a set of techniques to modify the design ...more on Wikipedia about "Design for manufacturability (IC)" If you like you could tell us your opinion about shortopedia

Design for Test (aka "Design for Testability" or "DFT") is a name for design techniques that add certain testability features to a microelectronic hardware product design. The premise of the added features is that they make it easier to develop and apply manufacturing tests for the designed hardware. The purpose of manufacturing tests is to validate that the product hardware contains no defects that could adversely affect the product’s correct functioning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Design For Test"

Design Rule Checking or Check(s) (DRC) is the area of Electronic Design Automation software that determines whether a particular chip design satisfies a series of recommended parameters called Design Rules. ...more on Wikipedia about "Design rule checking"

Digital circuits are electric circuits based on a number of discrete voltage levels. Digital circuits are the most common mechanical representation of Boolean algebra and are the basis of all digital computers. They can also be used to process digital information without being connected up as a computer. Such circuits are referred to as "random logic". (See also logic gate.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital circuit"

Electronic design automation (EDA) is the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. This is sometimes referred to as ECAD (electronic computer-aided design). ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic design automation"

In semiconductor device design, a floorplan of an integrated circuit is a diagram of the actual placement of its major components within the chip area. The image below is a mock chip floorplan, shown in a VLSI layout editor window. ...more on Wikipedia about "Floorplan (integrated circuits)"

(Floorplanning) Definition: The act of designing a birds eye view of a structure (eg: house). ...more on Wikipedia about "Floorplanning"

Formal equivalence checking is a process, used commonly during the development of digital integrated circuits, to formally prove that two representations of a circuit design exhibit exactly the same behavior. ...more on Wikipedia about "Formal equivalence checking"

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formal verification is the act of ...more on Wikipedia about "Formal verification"

Hardware emulation is the process of imitating the behavior of one piece of hardware (typically a system under design) with another piece of hardware, typically a special purpose emulation system. The goal is normally debugging of the system being designed. Often an emulator is fast enough to be plugged into a working target system in place of a yet-to-be-built chip, so they whole system can be debugged with live data. This is a specific case of in-circuit emulation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hardware emulation"

In electronic design and electronic design automation an intellectual property block, IP-block or IP core is a unit of reusable design, the use of which has been licensed to a third party. The term is derived from the licensing of the patents and copyrights which subsist in the design, which are sometimes called intellectual property. An alternative expansion is "integrated processor block". ...more on Wikipedia about "Intellectual property block"

Ladder logic or the Ladder programming language is a method of drawing electrical logic schematics. It is now a graphical language very popular for programming Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). It was originally invented to describe logic made from relays. The name is based on the observation that programs in this language resemble ladders, with two vertical "rails" and a series of "rungs" between them. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ladder logic"

Layout extraction is the translation of an integrated circuit layout back into the electrical circuit ( netlist) it is intended ...more on Wikipedia about "Layout extraction"

Logic simulation is the use of a computer program to simulate the operation of a digital circuit. Logic simulation is the primary tool used for verifying the logical correctness of a hardware design. In many cases logic simulation is the first activity performed in the process of taking a hardware design from concept to realization. Modern hardware description languages are both simulatable and synthesizable. Designing hardware today is really writing a program in a hardware description language. Performing a simulation is just running that program. When the program (or model) runs correctly, then one can be reasonably assured that the logic of the design is correct, for the cases that have been tested in the simulation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Logic simulation"

Logic synthesis is a process by which an abstract form of desired circuit behavior (typically register transfer level (RTL) or behavioral) is turned into a design implementation in terms of logic gates. Common examples of this process include synthesis of HDLs, including VHDL and Verilog. Some tools can generate bitstreams for programmable logic devices such as PALs or FPGAs, while others target the creation of ASICs. Logic synthesis is one aspect of electronic design automation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Logic synthesis"

Mask data preparation is the step that translates an intended set of polygons on an integrated circuit layout into a form that can be physically written by the photomask writer. Usually this involves fracturing complex polygons into simpler shapes, often rectangles and trapezoids, that can be written by the mask writing hardware. Tyically a design is delivered to mask data preparation in GDSII format (though the OASIS format is beginning to be used), and after fracturing is written out in a proprietary format specific to the mask writer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mask data preparation"

The word netlist can be used in several different domains, but perhaps the most popular is in the electronic design domain. In this domain, a "netlist" describes the connectivity of an electronic design. ...more on Wikipedia about "Netlist"

Place and Route is a stage in design of: ...more on Wikipedia about "Place and route"

Placement is an essential step in electronic design automation - the portion of the physical design flow that assigns exact locations for various circuit ...more on Wikipedia about "Placement (EDA)"

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