Luis Miguel Silveira - Böcker

The current trend towards the realization of complex and versatile "systems on a chip" requires the combined efforts and attention of experts in a range of areas including microsystems, embedded hardware/software systems, dedicated ASIC and programmable logic hardware, reconfigurable computing, wireless communications and RF issues, video and image processing, memory systems, low power design techniques, design, test and verification algorithms, modeling and simulation, logic synthesis and interconnect analysis. Thus, the contributions presented address a wide range of "systems on a chip" problems. This text comprises the selected proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI '99), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and was held in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 1999.The volume is organized around two themes, in which the following topics are addressed: VLSI systems design and applications; analog systems design; analog modelling and design; image processing; reconfigurable computing; memory and system design; low power design VLSI design methods and CAD; test and verification; analog CAD and interconnect; fundamental CAD algorithms; verification and simulation; CAD for physical design; high-level synthesis and verification of embedded systems. This text should be useful reading for researchers working on system integration, design and CAD.

For over three decades now, silicon capacity has steadily been doubling every year and a half with equally staggering improvements continuously being observed in operating speeds. This increase in capacity has allowed for more complex systems to be built on a single silicon chip. Coupled with this functionality increase, speed improvements have fueled tremendous advancements in computing and have enabled new multi-media applications. Such trends, aimed at integrating higher levels of circuit functionality are tightly related to an emphasis on compactness in consumer electronic products and a widespread growth and interest in wireless communications and products. These trends are expected to persist for some time as technology and design methodologies continue to evolve and the era of Systems on a Chip has definitely come of age. While technology improvements and spiraling silicon capacity allow designers to pack more functions onto a single piece of silicon, they also highlight a pressing challenge for system designers to keep up with such amazing complexity. To handle higher operating speeds and the constraints of portability and connectivity, new circuit techniques have appeared. Intensive research and progress in EDA tools, design methodologies and techniques is required to empower designers with the ability to make efficient use of the potential offered by this increasing silicon capacity and complexity and to enable them to design, test, verify and build such systems.

This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 21st IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2013, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2013. The 11 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from the 48 full papers presented at the conference. An extended version of a previously unpublished high-quality paper from VLSI-SoC 2012 is also included. The papers cover a wide range of topics in VLSI technology and advanced research. They address the current trend toward increasing chip integration and technology process advancements bringing about stimulating new challenges both at the physical and system-design levels, as well as in the test of these systems.

Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems provides a showcase for the Circuit and Multi-Domain Simulation Workshop held in San Jose, California, USA, on November 5, 2009. The nine chapters are contributed by experts in the field and provide a broad discussion of recent developments on simulation, modeling and verification of integrated circuits and biological systems.Specific topics include large scale parallel circuit simulation, industrial practice of fast SPICE simulation, structure-preserving model order reduction of interconnects, advanced simulation techniques for oscillator networks, dynamic stability of static memories and biological systems as well as verification of analog integrated circuits.Simulation and verification are fundamental enablers for understanding, analyzing and designing an extremely broad range of engineering and biological circuits and systems.  The design of nanometer integrated electronic systems and emerging biomedical applications have stimulated the development of novel simulation and verification techniques and methodologies. Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems provides a broad discussion of recent advances on simulation, modeling and verification of integrated circuits and biological systems and offers a basis for stimulating new innovations.