The making of VIVID: a software engineering perspective

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The making of VIVID: a software engineering perspective

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Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference archive
Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference table of contents

Miami Beach, Florida, United States

Pages: 74 - 81

Year of Publication: 1987

ISBN:0-8186-0781-5

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J. B. Rosenberg

Duke University, Department of Computer Science, Durham, NC

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SIGDA: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper is about the software engineering facets of the making of a large programming systems product for symbolic VLSI CAD called VIVID. Issues such as how teams were organized, how conceptual integrity was maintained, and portability are discussed. Specific tools are also described that were built to aid in the development of VIVID. Methods are explored that aid in managing large systems with many directories and huge numbers of files. Finally, techniques for debugging such a large system are discussed. This paper's goal is to share these tools, techniques and methods to improve the software engineering practices used by all developers of CAD as well as other large software systems.

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