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Article: The next wave synthesis tools help with mixed-signal designs: the "analog-synthesis" label covers a number of approaches, all targeting improving engineers' efficiency in designing analog circuits. (cover story).
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- November 28, 2002
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THE INTRODUCTION of commercial logic-synthesis tools for digital design drastically improved the efficiency of designers. The technology was responsible not only for improvements in digital design, but also the tremendous growth of the semiconductor industry during the 1990s. In electronic design, synthesis automatically compiles the description of a circuit into the equivalent circuit at a lower level of abstraction. To perform the transformation, logic-synthesis tools use a library of predesigned cells that implement basic logic functions to map the circuits a designer describes into a collection of gates. Digital synthesis transforms an RTL design in the equivalent ...