Design Automation Research at T h e University of W i s c o n s i n - Madison Profs. J. Beetem, D. Dietmeyer, Y. Hu, R. Jain, C. Kirne, P. Ramanathan, and K. Saluja ECE Department 1415 Johnson Drive Madison, WI 53706 November 20, 1991 The University of Wisconsin Madison has a large design automation research program with activities in many DA and CAD areas. The primary thrusts are in Testing, Highand Low-Level Synthesis, AI-based CAD, l~apid Implementation of CAD tools, Design Methodologies, and CAD System Issues. This document describes recent and current DA projects. The reader is encouraged to contact the investigators for more information about specific projects. - I The Galaxy C A D System Contact person: Prof. John Beetem, beetem@engr.wisc.edu The purpose of the Galaxy CAD System is to solve two important problems plaguing modern CAD systems: (1) poor programmer productivity and (2) poor integration of tools. Poor productivity makes implementation and maintenance of CAD tools slow and expensive. The high cost of tools restricts the size of the marketplace and prevents creation of many useful custom tools for specialized applications. The slow implementation of new tools inhibits the introduction and proliferation of
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