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@MISC{Conway_thedesign,
author = {Lynn Conway},
title = {The Design of VLSI Design Methods},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The Mead-Conway VLSI design and implementation methodologies were deliberately generated to be simple and accessible, and yet have wide coverage and efficiency in application. An overview is given of the methods used to "design the design methodology. " We sketch the results and the status of these methods, and of the associated infrastructure of university courses, computer network communities, silicon implementation systems, and silicon foundries in the United States. Building on this context, we present newly evolving knowledge concerning the principled design of design methods. Revisiting the Mead-Conway experiences to illustrate specific concepts, we consider how the properties of particular systems of knowledge, methods, and infrastructure affect the rates and extents of knowledge generation, diffusion, convergence, displacement, and integration. 1. Origins of the work During the early '70's, Carver Mead began a pioneering series of course in integrated circuit design at Caltech, presenting the basics of industry nMOS design practice at the time. Observing the students ' successes in later doing projects using these basics, Mead sensed that it might be possible to create new, much simpler methods of IC design than those then used in industry.
Keyphrases
vlsi design method university course design method specific concept industry nmos design practice ic design mead-conway vlsi design associated infrastructure carver mead design methodology wide coverage implementation methodology silicon foundry pioneering series mead-conway experience silicon implementation system particular system computer network community integrated circuit design principled design united state knowledge generation
