Very High Speed Integrated Circuits - VHSIC - Final Program Repoort
Abstract
This report presents a description and final account of the VHSIC program during its ten years of successfully developing advanced integrated circuit technologies and products for military systems. The new technologies and the products that VHSIC has produced have steadily found their way not only into the defense systems but also into the commercial industrial base. They provide the reservoir from which new system capabilities are emerging and a foundation upon which continual further advances are being made. Over the course of the past decade, the VHSIC program has been active in the development of new materials, new circuit design concepts, advanced fabrication processes, new manufacturing equipment, higher levels of radiation hardening, new data interface standards and specifications, and improved techniques for built-in-test and maintainability. The VHSIC Hardware Description Language and other design automation tools have broken through major integrated circuit complexity barriers and will decrease the cost and the development time of modern electronic systems. The resulting achievements have helped to produce a new level of system design and fabrication---one that approaches an integrated concept-to-system capability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA230012
Entities
Organizations
- Office Of The Under Secretary Of Defense