Computer-Aided Design for Integrated Circuits and Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Circuit and Signal Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 1927
Special Issue Editors
Interests: logic synthesis; FSM design; FPGA; ASIC; embedded systems; CAD of VLSI-based digital systems
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Interests: logic synthesis; FSM design; FPGA; ASIC; telecommunications; antenna arrays; hardware-software co-design; CAD of VLSI-based digital systems
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Interests: logic synthesis; digital design; embedded systems; hardware implementation of Finite State Machines; reconfigurable computing; FPGA; CAD for digital circuits and systems; optimization; fuzzy systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, we are witnessing a rapid development of semiconductor technology. As a result of the transition from microelectronics to nanoelectronics, new families of VLSI chips have appeared. The modern integrated circuits and systems consist of billions and billions of semiconductor transistors. Now, a single chip is enough to implement very complex digital and mixed digital-analog systems. The stiff competition between the manufacturers of integrated circuits and VLSI systems guarantees that only the best products come to the market. The enormous complexity of modern circuits and systems requires the use of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools that automate the different stages of the design flow. Unfortunately, modern CAD tools cannot effectively use all the potential opportunities provided by current integrated circuits. As before, many problems related to the design process still require active human intervention. Therefore, there is an obvious need to improve the theory and practice in circuit design automation in order to provide solutions to these problems. To sum up, the ever-increasing complexity of current and future industrial projects requires the development of efficient CAD tools that facilitate the implementation of complex integrated circuits and systems.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present novel practical and theoretical approaches related to the CAD of integrated circuits and systems. In particular, methodologies, tools, algorithms, and architectures that allow improving the efficiency of integrated circuits and systems in terms of performance, area occupancy, or power consumption are welcome.
Topics of interest of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theory of Computer-Aided Design;
- Design methods for reliable and high-efficient (in speed, power consumption or area) integrated circuits and systems;
- Formal methods for System-Level Design;
- Energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems;
- Design flow for ASICs and programmable devices (FPGAs and CPLDs);
- Synthesis of synchronous/asynchronous digital systems;
- Benchmarking in circuit design automation;
- Design for testability;
- Design, implementation, and verification of Finite State Machines;
- Packing and technology mapping;
- Verification and simulation of digital integrated circuits and systems;
- HW/SW co-design;
- Design exploration;
- CAD for embedded systems;
- CAD for Cyber-Physical Systems;
- CAD for networking systems;
- Reconfigurable computing.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Barkalov
Prof. Dr. Larysa Titarenko
Prof. Dr. Raouf Senhadji-Navarro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- computer-aided design
- integrated circuits
- packing
- technology mapping
- logic synthesis
- testability
- simulation
- verification
- design flow
- design exploration
- FPGA-based design
- ASIC-based design
- CPLD-based design
- system-on-a-programmable chip (SOPC)
- HW/SW co-design
- low power design
