Publisher's Synopsis
Recent advances in VLSI technologies have allowed larger and more complex designs. CAD systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques play the most important role in their short-term realization. This book contains 27 research papers reporting on the various technical fields in VLSI CAD. It is a coordinated collection of papers from researchers in the USA, Europe and Japan. The main topics covered are logic design using AI techniques, and expert systems, every paper offering an effective solution applying AI techniques to difficult problems in the CAD field.
