Research in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) Systems.

This report summarizes progress in the DARPA funded VLSI Systems Research Projects from November 1983 to March 1984, inclusive. The major areas under investigation have included analysis and synthesis design aids, applications of VLSI, special purpose chip design, VLSI computer architectures, signal processing algorithms and architectures, reliability studies, hardware specification and verification, VLSI theory, ad VLSI fabrication. The major research problems are introduced and progress is discussed the Appendix contains a list of published research papers from these projects. Author