{"title":"Fable: A programming-language solution to IC process automation problems","authors":"H. Ossher, B. Reid","doi":"10.1145/800226.806859","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Stanford University Center for Integrated Systems is embarking on an ambitious project to formally characterize integrated circuit fabrication processes, and to provide a degree of automation of research and prototyping activities in the IC fabrication facility. A crucial component of this project is the ability to represent an IC fabrication “recipe” in a repeatable, transportable, device-independent fashion. We have designed the language Fable for this purpose: it offers some novel approaches to abstraction and modularity. We describe the problem, explain why we were forced to devise a new language rather than use an existing language, describe important properties of the Fable language, and give several examples.","PeriodicalId":414056,"journal":{"name":"SIGPLAN Conferences and Workshops","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SIGPLAN Conferences and Workshops","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/800226.806859","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Stanford University Center for Integrated Systems is embarking on an ambitious project to formally characterize integrated circuit fabrication processes, and to provide a degree of automation of research and prototyping activities in the IC fabrication facility. A crucial component of this project is the ability to represent an IC fabrication “recipe” in a repeatable, transportable, device-independent fashion. We have designed the language Fable for this purpose: it offers some novel approaches to abstraction and modularity. We describe the problem, explain why we were forced to devise a new language rather than use an existing language, describe important properties of the Fable language, and give several examples.