Title
WireLisp: combining graphics and procedures in a circuit specification language
Abstract
WireLisp is a language that incorporates both procedural and graphic constructs for describing the structure of complex circuits. This combination provides both the clarity of a graphic representation and the expressiveness of a procedural description. A description is given of how this is done in a conceptually simple way be representing procedural information graphically. WireLisp is built on Lisp which allows the designer to extend the language with arbitrary functions. WireLisp can be used to generate a variety of different target output descriptions, and allows the incorporation of other kinds of descriptions such as behavioral and physical descriptions. WireLisp is implemented in T Lisp and has been used to describe complex (130000 transistor) VLSI chip design.<>
Year
DOI
Venue
1989
10.1109/ICCAD.1989.76962
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Keywords
Field
DocType
VLSI,circuit CAD,T Lisp,VLSI chip design,WireLisp,behavioural descriptions,circuit specification language,graphic constructs,graphic representation,graphics,physical descriptions,procedural constructs,procedures
Specification language,Graphics,Programming language,CLARITY,Computer science,Lisp,Computer Aided Design,Electronic engineering,Electronic circuit,Computer graphics,Very-large-scale integration
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.70
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carl Ebeling11405185.32
Zhanbing Wu250.70