Models for Structured IC Design

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Traditional design tools based on geometric representations do not provide an adequate base from which to construct and verify silicon implementations of complex systems. More comprehensive structural, physical and behavioral descriptions must be developed from appropriate representations. This paper proposes models which may be used to construct unified and consistent descriptions of the structural, physical and behavioral attributes of a design and also discusses a method of capturing these descriptions using a textual representation embedded in an object oriented programming language.

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