VLSI design with object-oriented knowledge bases

DOI10.1016/0010-4485(88)90073-5MaRDI QIDQ1113693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Phillip C.-Y. Sheu

Publication date 1988

Published in CAD. Computer-Aided Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-4485(88)90073-5

zbMATH Keywords

CADcomputer-aided designdesign databasesknowledge baseknowledge engineering frameworkobject-oriented designperformance measurementsVLSI computer architectures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information storage and retrieval of data (68P20) Artificial intelligence (68T99) Computing methodologies and applications (68U99)

Review text

One major technology that is needed is the development of a system that can integrate design tools and design databases, and is able to design an entire engineering system based on formal specifictions. In this paper, a knowledge engineering framework for designing VLSI computer architectures is introduced. This framework introduces three core concepts: knowledge abstraction, object-oriented design, and very high-level design programming. The input to the system is a descriptive specification of the behaviour of a computing system. The description is then matched against the existing design knowledge in the knowledge base, where the knowledge is abstracted and organized as classes. If a match can be found, the abstract knowledge is instantiated and can be reused; otherwise a heuristic synthesis process will be performed according to the design knowledge stored in the system. In the worst case, the designer goes one level down and decomposes the system into a set of smaller systems, where a structural description among different modules is specified, but only the behavioural specification for each module is given. The process is then repeated until a complete structural description is developed. At the bottom level, the system is designed to support and automate the following tasks: integration of layout design tools; propagation of dynamic changes; propagation and abstraction of performance measurements; incremental design rule checking; and version control.

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