Hardware Component Modeling highlights the current state in the modeling of electronic components. It includes contributions from many of the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. The contents focus on four important topics.

Standards: Three chapters describe the current development in employing standards for the use of component libraries. A major part of these chapters provide an excellent introduction to VITAL (an IEEE standard), its application and some of the issues in using and implementing it. There are, however, other standards with a role to play and these are also covered. Data Types: A chapter describes the latest techniques for using data types in modeling and simulation.

Model Generation: One chapter describes a model generator for reusable component models and another describes a generator which takes actual physical data as its source and generates a functional model. Quality Assurance: Two chapters are devoted to improving the quality of models. One introduces a method for quantifying aspects of model quality and other introduces quality concepts which can lead to an increase in model value through reuse and robustness.