This paper presents an educational Electronic Design Automation tool called AYSE (Automated SYstem Synthesis Environment). AYSE is developed to help undergraduate and graduate students better understand and implement fundamental concepts in digital electronic design and synthesis courses. It receives an intermediate format that represents the system behavior and a set of constraints as input; and generates the representation of the actual circuit using the electronic components (functional units, memory and steering logic components) available in its technology library. A user can load the input from an external file or utilize the graphical user interface (GUI). Similarly, the output can be displayed using GUI or written to a file. The user is able to interact with the tool during the synthesis process and select the algorithms to perform three main synthesis tasks; namely, resource allocation, operation scheduling and resource binding/sharing. It is also possible to run the tool for the most efficient solution. The effectiveness of the tool was tested in a graduate level course.

In this paper, we present an educational Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool to help undergraduate and graduate students better understand and implement fundamental concepts in digital electronic design and synthesis courses. The tool receives an intermediate format that represents the system behavior and a set of constraints as input; and generates the actual circuit in a net-list representation using the electronic components (functional units, memory and steering logic components) available in its library. A user is able to interact with the tool during the synthesis process and modify the intermediate representations before further execution. The effectiveness of the tool has been tested in a graduate level course.

Considering the complexity of today's digital electronic systems, it is crucial to have open-source electronic design automation (EDA) tools specifically developed for educational purposes. Such tools can easily be modified to meet the demands of the course being taught and they can be configured to expose the intermediate steps during the design process. This chapter presents an educational EDA tool to help students better understand and implement fundamental concepts in digital electronic design and synthesis courses. The tool receives an intermediate format that represents the target system behavior and a set of constraints as input, and generates the representation of the actual circuit using high-level electronic components such as functional units, memory, and steering logic components available in its technology library. It considers execution delay, area, memory space consumption, and reliability constraints. The user is able to interact with the tool during the design process and select the algorithms to perform various synthesis and optimization tasks.