Glossary
VLSI System Design

ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) :

Application-specific integrated circuit.

CAD (Computer Aided Design) :

Acronym for CAD.

CAO :

Computer-aided design.

CPU (Computing Unit) :

Microprocessor.

behavioral description :

Description of a system through a set of information exchanges (as opposed to a structural description).

HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) :

Hardware abstraction layer, programming interface for accessing hardware components.

IP (Intellectual Property) :

Specialized circuit.

FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) :

Circuit composed of a set of electronic cells or blocks whose interconnections are programmable.

MPSoC (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip) :

Multiprocessor system-on-a-chip.

placement :

Defines the position of cells...