Integrated circuit design
The design of integrated circuits was created around 1980 as an independent scientific discipline.
The increasing degree of integration made it necessary to cut the cord from the previous technology, as the VLSI design could no longer be done on the side because of the rapidly increasing number of transistors on a microchip - according to Moore's law . In Germany, this discipline was introduced into university curricula through the EIS project to address the shortage of microelectronic designers on the job market. The EIS project funded at the time by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMFT), a forerunner of the EUROCHIP infrastructure funded by the European Union Commission , was Germany's answer to the worldwide, so-called "Mead & Conway" movement, which also included the EDA industry. The "Mead & Conway" movement was initiated around 1980 by Carver Mead of the California Institute of Technology and Lynn Conway , then head of the VLSI laboratory at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center).
See also
literature
- Carver Mead , Lynn Conway : Introduction to VLSI Systems . Addison-Wesley, Reading MA 1980, ISBN 0-201-04358-0 ( Addison-Wesley series in computer science 4358).