17th DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE REPORT June 23-25, 1980 V. L. Stefan Control Data Corporation 4210 Lexington Avenue North Arden Hills, Minnesota The Design Automation Conference was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 23-25, 1980, a co-sponsored project of the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) and the IEEE Computer Society Design Automation Technical Committee (DATC.) A near-record crowd of 847 came to attend the 33 sessions, more than double the 417 that came to New Orleans in 1977. Speakers and papers came from 21 states and nine countries to share in the annual event. Simulation and verification techniques were the subjects of 12 papers, with s~me on timing models or logic synthesis systems rather than the traditional gate level simulation. It seems that DA will find some necessary alternatives to expensive simulations in the 1980~s, or else. That is, no one will be able to afford the design and simulation costs associated with VLSI and the iO5gates on a chip projected for later in the decade. Placement and routing were topics covered in 17papers with data structures for routing covered in three more. Channel reuters for ICs were discussed the first afternoon. "0vet-the-cell" routing combines channel routing
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