By Thomas Knight, John Savage
ISBN-10: 0262111667
ISBN-13: 9780262111669
The layout of hugely built-in or large-scale platforms includes a suite of interrelated disciplines, together with circuits and units, layout automation, VLSI structure, software program platforms, and idea. winning study in any of those disciplines more and more is dependent upon an figuring out of the opposite parts. This convention the 14th in a sequence that has been held at Caltech, MIT, UNC Chapel Hill, Stanford, and UC Santa Cruz, seeks to motivate interplay between researchers in all disciplines; that relate to hugely built-in structures. Thomas Knight is affiliate Professor within the division of electric Engineering and laptop technology on the Massachusetts Institute of expertise. John Savage is Professor within the division of desktop technology at Brown college. Topics lined: Circuits and units. Innovative electric circuits, optical computing, automatic semiconductor production, wafer-scale structures. layout Automation. Synthesis and silicon compilation, format and routing, research and simulation, novel layout equipment, architectural layout aid, layout for try out. VLSI structure. hugely parallel architectures, specialpurpose VLSI chips and platforms, novel small-scale structures, 1/0 and secondary garage, packaging, and fault tolerance. software program platforms. Architecturedriven programming versions, parallel languages, compiling for concurrency, working platforms, synchronization. 'Theory. Parallel algorithms, VLSI conception, format and wireability research, 1/0 complexity, interconnection networks, reliability.