VLSI: Integrated Systems on Silicon: IFIP TC10 WG10.5 International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration 26–30 August 1997, Gramado, RS, Brazil

This book contains the papers that have been presented at the ninth Very Large Scale Integrated Systems conference VLSI'97 that is organized biannually by IFIP Working Group 10.5. It took place at Hotel Serra Azul, in Gramado Brazil from 26-30 August 1997. Previous conferences have taken place in Edinburgh, Trondheim, Vancouver, Munich, Grenoble and Tokyo. The papers in this book report on all aspects of importance to the design of the current and future integrated systems. The current trend towards the realization of versatile Systems-on-a-Chip require attention of embedded hardware/software systems, dedicated ASIC hardware, sensors and actuators, mixed analog/digital design, video and image processing, low power battery operation and wireless communication. The papers as presented in Jhis book have been organized in two tracks, where one is dealing with VLSI System Design and Applications and the other presents VLSI Design Methods and CAD. The following topics are addressed: VLSI System Design and Applications Track • VLSI for Video and Image Processing. • Microsystem and Mixed-mode design. • Communication And Memory System Design • Cow-voltage & Low-power Analog Circuits. • High Speed Circuit Techniques • Application Specific DSP Architectures. VLSI Design Methods and CAD Track • Specification and Simulation at System Level. • Synthesis and Technology Mapping. • CAD Techniques for Low-Power Design. • Physical Design Issues in Sub-micron Technologies. • Architectural Design and Synthesis. • Testing in Complex Mixed Analog and Digital Systems.

Table of Contents:
One VLSI for Video and Image Processing.- 1 A low-power H.263 video CoDec core dedicated to mobile computing.- 2 A VLSI architecture for real time edge linking.- 3 VLSI implementation of contour extraction from real time image sequences.- Two Microsystem and Mixed-mode Design.- 4 An architecture for a 12 bits low power integrated CMOS pressure sensor with thermal compensation.- 5 On-line testing of analog circuits by adaptive filters.- 6 A multi-mode signature analyzer for analog and mixed circuits.- Three Communication and Memory System Design.- 7 An all-digital single-chip symbol synchronizer and channel decoder for DVB.- 8 An ATM switching element with programmable capacity.- 9 Reconfigurable CPU cache memory design: fault tolerance and performance evaluation.- Four Low-voltage and Low-power Analog Circuits.- 10 A low-voltage operational transconductance amplifier and its application to a bandpass Gm-C filter.- 11 A programmable second generation SI integrator for low-voltage applications.- 12 Low-voltage current-mode analogue continuous-time filters.- 13 A set of device generators for analog and mixed-signal layout synthesis.- Five High Speed Circuit Techniques.- 14 E-TSPC: extended true single-phase-clock CMOS circuit technique.- 15 Noise and power programmability in semi-custom I/O buffers.- 16 Charge pump DPLL to operate at high frequencies.- 17 A 3.3 Gb/s sample circuit with GaAs MESFET technology and SCFL gates.- SIX Application Specific DSP Architectures.- 18 An embedded accelerator for real world computing.- 19 Design of a low power 108-bit conditional sum adder using energy economized pass-transistor logic (EEPL).- 20 A novel globally asynchronous locally synchronous sliding window DFT implementation.- 21 Unfolded redundant CORDIC VLSI architectures with reduced area and power consumption.- Seven Specification and Simulation at System Level.- 22 Multi-view design of asynchronous micropipeline systems using Rainbow.- 23 High level synthesis of protocols by a formal description technique.- 24 Matisse: a concurrent and object-oriented system specification language.- Eight Synthesis and Technology Mapping.- 25 Library free technology mapping.- 26 An implicit formulation for exact BDD minimization of incompletely specified functions.- 27 Sequential logic optimization with implicit retiming and resynthesis.- 28 Boolean mapping based on testing techniques.- Nine CAD Techniques for Low-power Design.- 29 Testability analysis of circuits using data-dependent power management.- 30 Data sequencing for minimum-transition transmission.- 31 Spurious transitions in adder circuits: analytical modelling and simulations.- 32 Power reduction through clock gating by symbolic manipulation.- Ten Physical Design Issues in Sub-micron Technologies.- 33 A timing-driven floorplanning algorithm with the Elmore delay model for building block layout.- 34 Efficient layout style for three-metal CMOS macro-cells.- 35 Coupled circuit-interconnect modeling and simulation.- 36 Accurate static timing analysis for deep submicronic CMOS circuits.- Eleven Architectural Design and Synthesis.- 37 A time driven adder generator architecture.- 38 User guided high level synthesis.- 39 Empirical interconnect crosstalk characterization for high level synthesis.- 40 Methods and tools for high and system level synthesis.- Twelve Testing in Complex Mixed Analog and Digital Systems.- 41 A new frequency-domain analog test generation tool.- 42 Boundary-scan testing for mixed-signal MCMs.- 43 Stress testing: a low cost alternative for burn-in.- 44 Non-Monte Carlo simulation andsensitivity of linear(ized) analog circuits under parameter variations.- 45 Top-down design methodology and technology for Microsystems.- Index of Contributors.- Keyword Index.