Al Magazine

Over the past two years we have started a program of research into the development of VLSI systems. Professor Gerald Sussman, John Holloway, Tom Knight, Howie Shrobe, and others have developed a number of systems, including a single ship SCHEME processor. We have TTL implementations of a number of our vision algorithms, and we are in the process of switching some of them to VLSI. Expert Problem Solving and VLSI Design Traditional automated synthesis techniques for circuit design are restricted to small classes of circuit functions for which mathematical methods exist. Professor Gerald J. Sussman and his group have developed computer-aided design tools that can be of much broader assistance.