The heritage of Mead & Conway: What has remained the same, what has changed, what was missed, and what lies ahead [point of view]
The work
| Authors | Marco Casale-Rossi |
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| Editors | |
| Type | article |
| Year | 2014 |
| Citekey | casalerossi2014heritage |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Proceedings of the IEEE |
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| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 114--119 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1109/jproc.2013.2295871 |
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| OpenAlex | W2069171869 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2013.2295871 |
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| Free full text | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/5/6717007/06717019.pdf |
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Abstract
I was an undergraduate student when I read Introduction to VLSI Systems (Mead and Conway, 1979) for the first time, in the early 1980s; most likely a copy brought to Italy by Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli on the occasion of one of his summer visits to the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy); “the book”introduced me to a world full of new ideas, and contributed to changing the voyage of my life, from mathematics and computer programming to electronic design automation (EDA). I reread “the book”during summer 2012 while working on a customer presentation, and I thought that Mead & Conway's methods still looked incredibly modern. I wondered what had really changed in the last 30 years, if anything; whether there were fundamental misses in Mead & Conway's methods; and if and how they could help address the grand challenges and the “red bricks”that lay ahead.
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@article{casalerossi2014heritage,
title = {The heritage of Mead \& Conway: What has remained the same, what has changed, what was missed, and what lies ahead [point of view]},
author = {Marco Casale-Rossi},
year = {2014},
journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
volume = {102},
number = {2},
pages = {114--119},
doi = {10.1109/jproc.2013.2295871},
}
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