Designing Vlsi Computer Architectures With Knowledge

Phillip C. Sheu

doi:10.1117/12.940648

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11 May 1987 Designing Vlsi Computer Architectures With Knowledge

Phillip C. Sheu

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Proceedings Volume 0786, Applications of Artificial Intelligence V; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940648
Event: 1987 Technical Symposium Southeast on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1987, Orlando, FL, United States

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One major development that should reach fruition in the near future is a system that integrates design tools and design databases, and to design an entire engineering system based on formal specifications. In this paper we introduce a knowledge engineering framework for designing VLSI computer architectures. 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 behavior 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 the designer has to go one level down decom-posing the system into a set of smaller systems, where a structural description among different modules is specified but only the behavioral specification for each module is given. The process is then repeated until a complete structural description is developed.

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Phillip C. Sheu "Designing Vlsi Computer Architectures With Knowledge", Proc. SPIE 0786, Applications of Artificial Intelligence V, (11 May 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940648

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