A description language for design process management

Author

Sutton, Peter R. ; Director, Stephen W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

3-7 Jun, 1996

Firstpage

175

Lastpage

180

Abstract

A language for defining design discipline characteristics is proposed. Design discipline characteristics such as abstraction levels, design object classifications and decompositions, design objectives, and design methodologies can be defined in a simple machine and human readable form. The language, DDDL, has led to the development of a user interface for Minerva II, a design process management tool, which, when configured with a design discipline description, can be used to aid teams of designers in the solution of complex multi-disciplinary design problems. DDDL and user interface examples are presented

Keywords

circuit CAD; design engineering; hardware description languages; DDDL; Minerva II; abstraction levels; complex multi-disciplinary design problems; description language; design discipline characteristics; design discipline description; design methodologies; design object classifications; design objectives; design process management; user interface; Design automation; Design methodology; Digital systems; Encapsulation; Hardware design languages; Humans; Integrated circuit interconnections; Permission; Process design; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference Proceedings 1996, 33rd

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

0738-100X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3294-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAC.1996.545567

Filename

545567