A VHDL-AMS compiler and architecture generator for behavioral synthesis of analog systems

There has been increasing interest in the study of research communities with the goal of optimizing their outcomes and impact. While current methods can predict future trends, they offer little insight about the causes of the trends. However, causal insight is important for strategic decision making to improve a community. This paper presents a new method to predict the possible causes for inefficiencies in a community by relating them to disconnections between trends, like trends in the number of publications, patents, citations, and so on. The method combines traditional scientometric and webometric metrics and metric predictions with a recent model for trend analysis in a community. The proposed method was used to analyze electronic design automation (EDA) domain. The analysis showed intriguing disconnections between the trends of the number of papers, number of granted patents, and impact of its main publications. The analysis suggests a slightly decreasing impact and visibility of EDA, while having less novel, commonly-accepted knowledge in the area. The gained insight suggests three possible strategic decisions to improve EDA community: avoiding to ignore new ideas, reducing the complexity of framed problems, and keeping a minimal gap between real-life needs and academic solutions.

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Towards a specification notation for high-level synthesis of mixed-signal and analog systems

Doboli¹,

Vemuri²

Proceedings 2000 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Behavioral Modeling and Simulation

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This paper discusses aBlox -a specification notation that we defined for automated synthesis of mixed-signal systems. aBlox addresses two important aspects of mixed-signal system specification: (1) description of functionality and performance issues and (2) expression of analog-digital interactions. The semantics of aBlox embeds concepts and rules of a computational model that we developed for mixed-signal systems. Finally, the paper shows some mixed-signal specifications that we developed in aBlox.

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A VHDL-AMS compiler and architecture generator for behavioral synthesis of analog systems

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Towards High-Level Analog and Mixed-Signal Synthesis From VHDL-AMS Specifications

Towards High-Level Analog and Mixed-Signal Synthesis From VHDL-AMS Specifications

Combining informetrics and trend analysis to understand past and current directions in electronic design automation

Towards a specification notation for high-level synthesis of mixed-signal and analog systems

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