Electronic design automation

central computer component that executes instructions

specialized electronic circuit; graphics accelerator

electronic circuits representing signals by discrete bands of analog levels

problem of determining if a Boolean formula could be made true

programming language that represents a program by a graphical diagram based on the circuit diagrams of relay logic hardware; used to develop software for programmable logic controllers used in industrial control applications

category of software tools for designing electronic systems such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards

organizing components structures and behaviors for any simple to complex system

Converting abstract operations into digital logic systems

thumb|Electromigration (red arrow) is due to the momentum transfer from the electrons moving in a wire Electromigration is the transport of material caused by the gradual movement of the ions in a conductor due to the momentum transfer between conducting electrons and diffusing metal atoms. The effect is important in applications where high direct current densities are used, such as in microelectronics and related structures. As the structure size in electronics such as integrated circuits (ICs) decreases, the practical significance of this effect increases.

industrial standard for programmable logic controllers

A schematic, or schematic diagram, is a designed representation of the elements of a system using abstract, graphic symbols rather than realistic pictures. A schematic usually omits all details that are not relevant to the key information the schematic is intended to convey, and may include oversimplified elements in order to make this essential meaning easier to grasp, as well as additional organization of the information.

type of programmable logic device

product design characteristic reflecting its ease of manufacture, maintenance or (and) repair

circuit behavior replication; uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit

reusable unit of integrated circuit design that can be licensed to other chip designers

technique used in synchronous circuits for reducing dynamic power dissipation, by adding more logic to a circuit to prune the clock tree (disabling portions of the circuitry so that the flip-flops in them do not have to switch states)

In electronic design, a netlist is a description of the connectivity of an electronic circuit. In its simplest form, a netlist consists of a list of the electronic components in a circuit and a list of the nodes they are connected to. A network (net) is a collection of two or more interconnected components.

type of architecture for digital logic circuits based on gates and registers, or this level of abstraction, particularly in a hardware description language

type of digital circuit

device with a set of programmable AND gate planes, which link to a set of programmable OR gate planes, which can be conditionally complemented to produce an output, allowing logic functions to be synthesized in the sum of products canonical forms

electronic circuit tools and techniques that ensure electrical signals are of sufficient quality

representation of an integrated circuit in terms of planar geometric shapes which correspond to the patterns of metal, oxide, or semiconductor layers that make up the components of the integrated circuit

problem of determining whether a mathematical formula is satisfiable

group of transistor and interconnect structures that provides a boolean logic function; used to design application-specific integrated circuits with mostly digital-logic features

communication subsystem on an integrated circuit

software for running computer simulations

network interface controller with integrated general-purpose programmability

Models the mean time to failure of a semiconductor circuit due to electromigration

branch of electronic design automation that models semiconductor fabrication and semiconductor device operation

algorithm based on breadth-first search to solve mazes

performed at varying degrees of physical abstraction

method for designing finite state machines

stage of electronic circuit design

specification of a method for integrated circuit vendors to provide information about the input/output buffers of their product to their prospective customers without revealing the intellectual property of their implementation and without requiring p

stage of electronic circuit design

process in digital electronics and integrated circuit design

IC design techniques that include testability features