vlsi (07/13/82)
The University of Waterloo is starting a VLSI design effort. Up to the present time most of the effort was in the area of simple devices and circuits, with the accent on processing and technology. The success of the Carver-Mead book has forced the expansion into developing tools for larger things, and into the functional design area. I am trying to survey the current state of the art, and find the following information: 1. What tools, and what languages and systems were they developed on were used for designs previous to 1979? 2. What tools, and so forth, are currently being used for major designs? 3. What tools and languages are being developed. When I mention languages, I am talking not only about the programming language, such as Pascal, Fortran, etc., but also description languages such as CIF, ICDL, etc. The results I find will be summarized and distributed over the network. I hope to have a preliminary set available by then end of July. Patrick Powell, VLSI Group, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada P.S.- DARPA restrictions. During a conversation at the last Design Automation Conference, June 14-17, 1982, in Las Vegas, Mr. Paul Losleben of DARPA stated the position of his part of DARPA on the exchange of information with the University of Waterloo. Since we do not copy, distribute, or otherwise release other peoples software or publications, and have no commercial users or product development on our systems, there should be not problems. Please contact Mr. Losleben for clarification for clarification. -------