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    1.1 Evolution of Computer-Aided Digital Design

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    Digital circuit design has evolved from using vacuum tubes and transistors to placing thousands of gates on integrated circuits. As circuit complexity increased with technologies like VLSI, computer-aided design techniques became necessary for verification and design. Early techniques included circuit simulation of small blocks of around 100 transistors and manual layout on paper. Later, logic simulators allowed verification of functionality before chip fabrication for very large circuits with over 100,000 transistors that could no longer be tested on breadboards. As designs grew even larger, logic simulation took on an important role in catching functional bugs early in the design process.

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    Digital circuit design has evolved from using vacuum tubes and transistors to placing thousands of gates on integrated circuits. As circuit complexity increased with technologies like VLSI, computer-aided design techniques became necessary for verification and design. Early techniques included circuit simulation of small blocks of around 100 transistors and manual layout on paper. Later, logic simulators allowed verification of functionality before chip fabrication for very large circuits with over 100,000 transistors that could no longer be tested on breadboards. As designs grew even larger, logic simulation took on an important role in catching functional bugs early in the design process.

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    Digital circuit design has evolved from using vacuum tubes and transistors to placing thousands of gates on integrated circuits. As circuit complexity increased with technologies like VLSI, computer-aided design techniques became necessary for verification and design. Early techniques included circuit simulation of small blocks of around 100 transistors and manual layout on paper. Later, logic simulators allowed verification of functionality before chip fabrication for very large circuits with over 100,000 transistors that could no longer be tested on breadboards. As designs grew even larger, logic simulation took on an important role in catching functional bugs early in the design process.

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    Digital circuit design has evolved from using vacuum tubes and transistors to placing thousands of gates on integrated circuits. As circuit complexity increased with technologies like VLSI, computer-aided design techniques became necessary for verification and design. Early techniques included circuit simulation of small blocks of around 100 transistors and manual layout on paper. Later, logic simulators allowed verification of functionality before chip fabrication for very large circuits with over 100,000 transistors that could no longer be tested on breadboards. As designs grew even larger, logic simulation took on an important role in catching functional bugs early in the design process.

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    1 Evolution of Computer-Aided Digital Design


    Digital circuit design has evolved rapidly over the last 25 years. The earliest digital
    circuits were designed with vacuum tubes and transistors. Integrated circuits were then
    invented where logic gates were placed on a single chip. The first integrated circuit (IC)
    chips were SSI (Small Scale Integration) chips where the gate count was very small. As
    technologies became sophisticated, designers were able to place circuits with hundreds of
    gates on a chip. These chips were called MSI (Medium Scale Integration) chips. With the
    advent of LSI (Large Scale Integration), designers could put thousands of gates on a
    single chip. At this point, design processes started getting very complicated, and
    designers felt the need to automate these processes. Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
    techniques began to evolve. Chip designers began to use circuit and logic simulation
    techniques to verify the functionality of building blocks of the order of about 100
    transistors. The circuits were still tested on the breadboard, and the layout was done on
    paper or by hand on a graphic computer terminal.
    [1] The earlier edition of the book used the term CAD tools. Technically, the term
    Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools refers to back-end tools that perform functions
    related to place and route, and layout of the chip . The term Computer-Aided Engineering
    (CAE) tools refers to tools that are used for front-end processes such HDL simulation,
    logic synthesis, and timing analysis. Designers used the terms CAD and CAE
    interchangeably. Today, the term Electronic Design Automation is used for both CAD
    and CAE. For the sake of simplicity, in this book, we will refer to all design tools as EDA
    tools.
    With the advent of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) technology, designers could
    design single chips with more than 100,000 transistors. Because of the complexity of
    these circuits, it was not possible to verify these circuits on a breadboard. Computeraided
    techniques became critical for verification and design of VLSI digital circuits.
    Computer programs to do automatic placement and routing of circuit layouts also became
    popular. The designers were now building gate-level digital circuits manually on graphic
    terminals. They would build small building blocks and then derive higher-level blocks
    from them. This process would continue until they had built the top-level block. Logic
    simulators came into existence to verify the functionality of these circuits before they
    were fabricated on chip.
    As designs got larger and more complex, logic simulation assumed an important role in
    the design process. Designers could iron out functional bugs in the architecture before the
    chip was designed further.

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