The summer school on VLSf GAD Tools and Applications was held from July 21 through August 1, 1986 at Beatenberg in the beautiful Bernese Oberland in Switzerland

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This book provides readers with an up-to-date account of the use of machine learning frameworks, methodologies, algorithms and techniques in the context of comp

This book, and the research it describes, resulted from a simple observation we made sometime in 1986. Put simply, we noticed that many VLSI design tools looked