Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Instrumentation

这项提案要求从国家科学基金会获得资金，为弗吉尼亚理工大学电气工程系的计算机和信息科学以及工程研究购买设备。所要求的设备将为研究人员提供高质量的集成电路设计系统。这三位主要的研究人员最近加入了教师队伍，希望启动需要这样的VLSI设计系统的计算机工程研究。研究人员目前无法获得这种能力。所要求的设备是由工作站硬件和设计自动化软件组成的VLSI设计系统。这些设备最初将由四个项目使用，这些项目涵盖了一系列研究领域。两个项目将使用该系统设计电路，用于可测试性设计和测试生成技术的开发、分析、验证和经验研究。第三个项目研究在单个芯片上使用数字和模拟处理用于生物医学计算应用。剩下的项目涉及设计一种用于多计算机的通信处理器。这些设备将提供能力，使研究人员能够为大学和国家技术基地做出贡献。该设备将显著提高超大规模集成电路设计、计算机辅助设计和测试以及系统架构领域的研究能力。

This proposal requests funds from the National Science Foundation to purchase equipment for computer and information science and engineering research in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech. The requested equipment will provide researchers with a high quality integrated circuit design system. The three principal ivestigators have recently joined the faculty and wish to initiate computer engineering research that requires such a VLSI design system. The capability is presently not available to the researchers. The requested equipment is a VLSI design system consisting of workstation hardware and design automation software. The equipment will be used initially by four projects that span a range for research areas. Two projects will use the system to design circuits for use in development, analysis, verification, and empirical studies of design for testability and test generation techniques. The third project ivestigates to use of digital and analog processing on a single chip for a biomedical computing application. The remaining project involves the design of a communications processor for use in multicomputers. The equipment will provide capabilities to allow the investigators to contribute to the university and the national technology base. The equipment will significantly increase the capacity for research in the areas of VLSI design, computer-aided design and test, and systems architecture.