A Survey of the State-of-the-Art of Design Automation - An Invited Presentation

This paper is a brief overview to an invited talk presented at the 9th Annual Conference on Design Automation. The work presented is based upon an extensive study of the status of industrial and government design automation systems applied to digital systems, with primary emphasis on digital cards and LSI circuits. A detailed summary of our finds can be found in [1]. The study covered 18 companies and government laboratories, including three in Japan and three in Europe.