2000 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Asp-Dac 2000, Date: 25 January 2000 through 28 January 2000, Location: Yokohama, Sponsors: Circuits and Systems (IEEE-CAS);Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ);ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA);Inst of Electronics, Info and;Communication Engineers (IEICE)