VLSI Engineering [electronic resource] : Beyond Software Engineering / edited by Tosiyasu L. Kunii.

Future directions for VLSI and software engineering -- An object-oriented, capability-based architecture -- Super freedom simulator PAX -- Prolog interpreter and its parallel extension -- Putting inner loops automatically in silicon -- Hardware algorithms for VLSI systems -- Graph-based design specification of parallel computation -- Experience with specification and verification of hardware using PROLOG -- VLSI verification and correction -- Automated logic synthesis -- A network for parallel searching -- A hardware file system for database storage -- Top-down VLSI design experiments on a picture database computer -- Advances in digital image processing for document reproduction.