Carousel - A Process Management Service to Support Analog Integrated Circuit Design
01 January 1988
Carousel is a design service developed to support analog integrated circuit (IC) design. The goals of Carousel are first, to reduce IC product development cost by reducing IC design time, and second, to support the "quality by design" philosophy. The Carousel design service meets these goals by creating a customized design environment in which the design process can further be automated. In this environment, Carousel provides fast automatic access to the correct and consistent support information and tools needed at several phases of the IC product development process. Design support information is selectively extracted from a centralized library of tool- and technology-specific functions, data, and utilities.