Web-based Distributed VLSI Design

Emerging "systems-on-a-chip" will require a design environment that allows distributed access to libraries, models and design tools. In this paper we present a framework using the Object-Web technologies to implement Web-based CAD. The framework includes the infrastructure to store and manipulate design objects, protocols for tool communication and WebTop, a Java hierarchical schematic/block editor with interfaces to distributed Web tools and cell libraries.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: VLSID
• Authors: Debashis Saha, Anantha Chandrakasan
• Keywords: Design Tools, Distributed Access, Hierarchical Schematic/block Editor, VLSI, VLSID 1998