THE CURRENT STATUS A~ND FUTURE WORK OF DESIGN AUTOMATION IN JAPAN BY Stephen Y. H. Su, Staff Consultant Design Automation UNIVAC P. O. Box 500 Blue Bell, Penna. 19422 The Japanese computer industry is very active and has done a great deal of work in the Design Automation area. The author has had the opportunity to talk to some of the people working for the leading Japanese computer manufacturers. The purpose of this article is to provide the readers with information about the recent Design Automation activities and future trend of work in this area in Japan. I. (i) PRESENT STATUS Design Language: As of July, 1973 there existed no design language for automated logic and system design in the Japanese computer industry. Professor T. Mottooka of the University of Tokyo has initiated some research in the design language area. (2) Design Language Translator As of July, in Japan. (hardware compiler) compiler 1973 there was no working hardware (3) System and Logic Level Simulator As far as can be determined, there is no working System Simulator in Japan. Most of the companies have logic level simulators capable of performing parallel simulation. (4) Logic design automation system To my
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