Electronic Design Automation Fundamentals (English Class)

Author: Mark D. Birnbaum
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Publication Date: 2005-08-24
Features: This book introduces the content needed to learn EDA, unveiling the mysteries of this high-tech industry. It presents the business and technology of EDA in a friendly and informal manner, with content that is clear enough for non-professional readers and detailed enough for professionals. This book is aimed at non-technical personnel in the EDA, semiconductor, or related industries responsible for sales, marketing, public relations, regulations, finance, etc., and can also serve as an excellent supplementary textbook for interdisciplinary engineering, business, and marketing courses in VLSI design. In this book, experienced industry leader Mark Birnbaum introduces the design problems EDA needs to solve, the tools used to solve these problems, the designers of these tools, and the factors that make EDA a critical component of electronic product and chip design. Additionally, the book provides a rich appendix for newcomers, including introductory materials on electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, computing, and general metrology, reference resources, and a complete glossary of acronyms. The main features of this book include:
● Explaining how EDA fits into the electronic and semiconductor industries.
● Studying the EDA industry from the perspectives of tool users and EDA software developers, including business models, return on investment, and tool evaluation.
● Including electronic system-level tools that define the role of ICs, front-end functional chip-level tools that design IC behavior, and back-end design tools that implement IC physical layout.
● Discussing trends in the EDA industry and IC design challenges, including challenges in deep submicron, intellectual property, and system-on-chip.
● Including EDA standard organizations and publications.