According to the Semiconductor Industry Association's 1999 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, by the year 2008 the integration of more than 500 million transistors will be possible on a single chip. Integrating transistors on silicon will depend increasingly on design reuse.

Design reuse techniques have become the subject of books, conferences, and podium discussions over the last few years. However, most discussions focus on higher-level abstraction like RTL descriptions, which can be synthesized. Design reuse is often seen as an add-on to normal design activity,...

Business Process Redesign soll durch Generierung von Quantensprungen in Qualitat, Produktivitat, Service und Zeit Unternehmen aus der Krise helfen. Ob der Einsatz und die Ubertragbarkeit dieses Managementansatzes auf alle Unternehmen und Branchen moglich ist und ob die Managementgurus halten, was sie versprechen, wird hier von Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis untersucht."

This volume is a welcome effort towards improving some of the practices in chip design today. The authors provide a comprehensive reference work on Automatic Layout Modification which will be valuable to VLSI courses at universities, and to CAD and circuit engineers and engineering managers.