A knowledge-based expert system for automatic visual VLSI reverse-engineering: VLSI layout version
- 10 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans
- Vol. 32 (3), 428-436
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmca.2002.805765
Abstract
This paper presents a method of knowledge representation for very large scale integration (VLSI) chip design which provides the necessary information for abstraction from the physical design to gate-level logic through a high-level behavioral model. The representation scheme used by the ANTISTROFEAS system utilizes a hierarchical attributed graph structure which consists of incrementally abstracted design information for the VLSI system. This method of knowledge representation is well-suited to reverse-engineering of VLSI chips from the layer mask layout data, but is also applicable to applications at many levels of the design process including design rule checking, logic synthesis, design verification, and partitioning-compaction problems. The representation scheme is applicable to any VLSI technology, and is designed to take advantage of artificial intelligence. expert system techniques, by disassociating the representation and manipulation of the VLSI design data from the rules which govern its correctness and transformation for other usage.Keywords
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