Many industries exhibit a growing trend towards better customisation. This means a larger
product variety, which can be implemented in the form of product families. The main idea of …

Design version management in the GARDEN framework Page 1 Design Version
Management in the GARDEN Framework l%ivio R. Wagner * Arna]do Ii. Viegas de Lima …

This paper describes the tight coupling between design and data modeling and
management facilities in the STAR EDA framework. STAR implements an innovalive and …

This paper discusses the relationships between HDLs and design management services
commonly found in EDA environments and frameworks. By using VHDL as a case study, it is …

Taking a closer look at the hardware design process it is beneficial to distinguish between
“techniques”,“methods”, and “tools”, which have to be applied to ensure an efficient design …

Überblick Mit steigender Komplexität der VLSI-Chips müssen neue Entwurfsverfahren
gefunden werden. Im PLAYOUT System werden die Entwurfsaufgaben wie Logikentwurf …

Many CAD systems involve maintenance of different forms of data for different facets of the
design process. This leads to confusion and inconvenience for the designer, and recent …

Abstract Concepts and some implementation results of a design environment based on an
object-oriented design data model are presented in the paper. This model has been used for …

Object-oriented persistent programming reduces the 'impedance mismatch'between
application programs and the stored data which they need to manipulate. This reduction is …

This report compares the data representation and management models of the AMPLO
design framework and of the hardware description language\HDL. It is argued that the …