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Fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5'06)
pp. 175-183
System LSI distributed collaborative design environment for both designers and CAD developers/engineers
Masahiro Fujita, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Tasuku Nishihara, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Daisuke Ando, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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In this paper we propose a distributed system LSI design
environment where both LSI designers and CAD tool developers/
engineering can collaboratively work for higher performance
designs. What we propose is a framework where
not only design issues but also CAD tool related problems
can be simultaneously taken care of by both designers and
CAD engineers. Traditional design tools and flows are assuming
to use CAD tools which have been fully developed
and cannot be modified or enhanced when designing LSI
chips. In order to use the most advanced LSI technology,
however, it is essential to use the most advanced CAD tools
which may not be fully debugged and tuned yet. This means
that CAD tools must be enhanced when designing a new
advanced LSI chip. Also we briefly discuss about implementation
issues of the proposal on top of Croquet type distributed
environments by showing a debugging process of
hardware logic designs. We define consistency conditions
on the use of CAD tools for the target LSI design flows
including interface issues among various CAD tools used
in the design flow and analyze them with a method similar
to model checking type approaches used in formal analysis.
We define virtual shared screens for both LSI designers
and CAD developers/engineers collaboration and monitors
activities on them, which will be the base of our model
checking type analysis. We examine various issues including
interface checking among CAD tools, interface checking
among design blocks, and tool performance enhancement/
design modifications.
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Citation:
Masahiro Fujita, Tasuku Nishihara, Daisuke Ando,
"System LSI distributed collaborative design environment for both designers and CAD developers/engineers,"
c5,
pp. 175-183,
Fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5'06),
2006
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