A survey of digital design reuse

As integrated circuit technologies advance toward higher performance, greater densities, and increasing system complexity, CAD tools and design methodologies struggle to keep pace. Managing the formidable complexity of the design process is one of the main challenges to IC design. Disseminating desi...

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Published inIEEE design & test of computers Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 98 - 107
Main Authors Jacome, M.F., Peixoto, H.P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE Computer Society 01.05.2001
Subjects
Automatic testing
Built-in self-test
Complexity
Density
Design engineering
Digital systems
Documentation
Guidelines
Hardware
Integrated circuits
Microprocessors
Process design
Reuse
Silicon
Software libraries
Standardization
Strategy
Stress
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Summary:As integrated circuit technologies advance toward higher performance, greater densities, and increasing system complexity, CAD tools and design methodologies struggle to keep pace. Managing the formidable complexity of the design process is one of the main challenges to IC design. Disseminating design reuse is central to bringing the design effort's complexity back to a manageable size. Effective reuse, though, takes more than just gathering predesigned components in a library. Reuse-oriented policies and strategies must permeate the entire design process, from the methodologies themselves to the final designs. In this article, we provide a brief overview of the state of the art in design reuse for digital systems. We also discuss the challenges posed to this discipline by the recent trend toward integrating processor cores in high-volume application specific integrated circuits.
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ISSN:0740-7475
1558-1918
DOI:10.1109/54.922806