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The task of design, fabrication and testing of even the simplest IC involves many operations and different stages of development. An error in any of these operations can render the final circuit inoperative, so careful checking of the design stages is therefore imperative. Many of the operations are repetitive, tedious and error prone, and are therefore much more suited to computers than humans. In addition, the sheer time that the operations would take to perform manually to produce an IC of greater complexity than SSI makes the wholly human-generated IC a virtual impossibility, even ignoring the economic disadvantages of such a route.
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Shepherd, P. (1996). CAD. In: Integrated Circuit Design, Fabrication and Test. New Electronics Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13656-8_5
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