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Throughout its history, from the early 4-circuit gate-array chips of the late 60's to today's billion-transistor multi-chip module, IBM has invested in tools to support its leading-edge technology and high-performance product development. The combination of demanding designs and close cooperation among product, technology and tool development has given rise to many innovations in the electronic design automation (EDA) area and provided IBM with a significant competitive advantage. This paper highlights IBM's contributions over the last four decades and presents a view of the future, where the best methods of multi-million gate ASIC and gigahertz microprocessor design are converged to enable highly productive system-on-a-chip designs that include widely diverse hardware and software components.
By: John Darringer, Evan Davidson, David Hathaway, Bernd Koenemann, Mark Lavin, Joseph Morrell, Khalid Rahmat, Wolfgang Roesner, Erich Schanzenbach, Gustavo Tellez, Louise Trevillyan.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, volume 19, (no 12), pages 1476-97 in 2000
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