Palladio: An Exploratory Environment for Circuit Design

Abstract

Palladio is a circuit design environment for experimenting with methodologies and knowledge-based, expert-system design aids. Palladio's framework is based on several premises about circuit design: (a) Circuit design is a process of incremental refinement; (b) It is an exploratory process in which design specifications and design goals co-evolve; and (c) Circuit designers need an integrated design environment that makes available compatible design tools ranging from simulators to layout generators, permits specification of digital systems in compatible languages ranging anywhere from architectural to layout, and includes the means for explicitly representing, constructing, and testing such design tools and languages

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA266696

Entities

People

  • Christopher Tong
  • Gordon Foyster
  • Harold Brown

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Diagrams
  • Digital Circuits
  • Expert Systems
  • Fabrication
  • Graphics
  • Language
  • Logic Gates
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Programming Languages
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Software Engineering.