VLSI
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- noun
- /ˌviːˌɛlˌɛsˈaɪ/
- Specialized
- Design planning is emerging as a solution to some of the most difficult challenges of the deep-submicron VLSI design era.
- VLSI chip
- VLSI design
Examples
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She is a senior engineer currently working on the design, analysis, and measurement of packaging and VLSI chip interconnections for future digital processor and communication applications.
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It would be nice if IBM open-sourced the designs for these so-called 'special purpose VLSI' that apparently handled much of the brute-force computation.
Blog text (7) -
So I have not changed the overall stack of the VLSI design flow that makes it highly attractive.
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Regardless of a chip's architectural function, the chip must support basic infrastructure requirements; therefore, these support functions are typically found in any VLSI chip design.
Academic text (1999) -
For most VLSI chips, resets are performed using the basic scan chain structure.
Academic text (1999) -
Since 1993, Mr. Dunne has worked in the VLSI Design Group, using the CADENCE program for circuit design and layout.
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With the increasing need to integrate as much function as possible into VLSI applications, the ALDC and ELDC cores provide flexible, lossless data compression solutions.
Academic text (1998) -
The Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI is the name of the partnership between Caltech's Kavli Nanoscience Institute and CEA-LETI.
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"This result demonstrates how the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI, initiated in 2006, creates a favorable environment to carry out innovative experiments with state-of-the-art, mass-produced devices," says Laurent Malier, the director of CEA-LETI.
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The engineer presented her latest findings on VLSI design processes at the conference.
Synonyms
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The design and making of very small electronic parts and circuits
Surface Forms
Morphology
VLSI = very + large + scale + integration (semi-transparent) = V + L + S + I
The acronym expands to the literal phrase 'very large scale integration', which hints at the concept, but understanding requires technical domain knowledge about chip design.
Etymology
VLSI comes from Very-Large-Scale Integration, meaning 'putting parts together', and by extension it also names the field of making and designing those complex chips that pack many tiny parts into one device.