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Science 29 April 1983:
Vol. 220. no. 4596, pp. 465 - 471
DOI: 10.1126/science.220.4596.465
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Design Automation for Integrated Circuits

Sydney B. Newell 1, Aart J. de Geus 2, and Ronald A. Rohrer 3

1 Manager of Technical Documentation at the General Electric Microelectronics Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
2 Program Manager of Simulation and Test Automation at the General Electric Microelectronics Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
3 Director of Electronic Marketing at the CALMA Company, Santa Clara, California 95050

With the ever-increasing complexity of integrated circuits, manual design methods have become intolerably slow and error-prone. The use of computers to automate some or all of the design process is necessary to minimize both design time and error incidence. In this article are discussed the design and fabrication of integrated circuits, selected techniques of design automation, and the problems associated with such automation.

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