VLSI Engineering

Future directions for VLSI and software engineering.- An object-oriented, capability-based architecture.- Super freedom simulator PAX.- Prolog interpreter and its parallel extension.- Putting inner loops automatically in silicon.- Hardware algorithms for VLSI systems.- Graph-based design specification of parallel computation.- Experience with specification and verification of hardware using PROLOG.- VLSI verification and correction.- Automated logic synthesis.- A network for parallel searching.- A hardware file system for database storage.- Top-down VLSI design experiments on a picture database computer.- Advances in digital image processing for document reproduction.