Electronic Design Automation Frameworks : Proceedings of the Fourth International IFIP WG 10.5 Working Conference on Electronic Design Automation Frameworks

Design frameworks have become an important infrastructure for building complex design systems. Electronic Design Automation Frameworks presents a state-of-the-art review of the latest research results covering this topic; results which are also of value for other design frameworks. The book contains the selected proceedings of the Fourth International Working Conference on Electronic Design Frameworks, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Gramado, Brazil, in November 1994. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Transaction-Based Design Data Processing in the PRIMA Framework....Pages 3-12 A Configurable Cooperative Transaction Model for Design Frameworks....Pages 13-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Configuration Management in the STAR Framework....Pages 25-34 AutoCap: An Automatic Tool Encapsulator....Pages 35-44 Schema Evolution in the STAR Framework....Pages 45-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Integration of a Domain Conceptual Model with the EDIF Information Model....Pages 57-65 Generating Abstract Datatypes with Remote Access Capabilities....Pages 66-75 Extending View Technology for Complex Integration Tasks....Pages 76-85 Front Matter....Pages 87-87 Framework and Multi-Formalism: the ASAR Project....Pages 89-98 Enhancing the Data Openness of Frameworks by Database Federation Services....Pages 99-108 Interoperability Support by Integration of EXPRESS Models....Pages 109-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Communication in a Distributed Environment....Pages 121-130 Basic Requirements for an Efficient Inter-Framework-Communication....Pages 131-138 Resource-Oriented Load Distribution in a Framework Environment....Pages 139-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Design Flow Management: More than Convenient Tool Invocation....Pages 149-158 Planning and Managing Multi-disciplinary and Concurrent Design Processes....Pages 159-168 A User Model Supporting Communication in High-Level Design Systems....Pages 169-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 A Framework for Electrical Test Engineering Automation....Pages 179-188 A Compound Information Model for High-Level Synthesis....Pages 189-198 An object-oriented CAE Framework for asynchronous Circuit Synthesis....Pages 199-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Design Representation in EDIF Version 3 0 0 and CFI Version 1.0....Pages 211-220 STEP Technology for ECAD Databases....Pages 221-230 Front Matter....Pages 231-231 Towards Design Formalization to Support Reuse in ECAD Frameworks....Pages 233-242 A Generator for Graph-Based Design Representations....Pages 243-252 The Visual Interface of the STAR Framework....Pages 253-262 Back Matter....Pages 263-281