CAD Tools

Within the NEXUS activity, aimed at strengthening the interaction of European industry and institutes in microsystems technology, user-supplier clubs (USC) are formed as one means for joint developments (for the USC for CAD tools see [240] for the MikroWebFab see [245]). This should serve to promote the industrial uptake, by bridging the gap also to new potential users. 

CAD tools to find a more efficient packing of circuits according to their inherent topology. Thus, a systematic reduction in the on-chip wire length can be expected, which can be translated into speed gain, power saving, and many other advantages. 

Different design alternatives can be evaluated using computer-aided design (CAD) tools to minimise the wall thickness of a part without decreasing stiffness... 

Level 5 (genius) pixels (thousands of transistors) have complexities, in general, above a thousand active devices, a level of complexity sufficient for implementing application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and microprocessors. But this functionality level has problems not faced by the lower levels. First, for free-space optical interconnection, optical I/Os should be arranged in a structured two-dimensional pattern in order to effectively use the two-dimensional nature of imaging optics. On the other hand, computer-aided design (CAD) tools for elec-... 

D. Borrione, H. Bouamama, D. Deharbe, C. Le Faou, A. Wahba "HDL-Based Integration of Formal Methods and CAD Tools in the PREVAIL Environment", Proc. FMCAD 96, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1166, Springer Verlag, 1996... 

Oracle Autovue as collaborative CAD tool for responding to visualization, annotation and data sharing priorities ... 

Appropriate tools and IT services are necessary to generate domain models. Some leading solution providers have started to provide integrated environments in which different models can be mapped. However, their approach is limited to their own proprietary systems. The challenge consists of achieving a federated environment (see Chap. 4) instead of an integrated environment, in which the tools (e.g., CAD tool) and models (e.g., CAD model, behavioral model) from different vendors share data and information. 

NOTE 2 Examples of some verification activities include design reviews, use of tools and techniques including software verification tools and CAD tools. 

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