HANDICAP-a system for design consulting

Author

Straube, M. ; Wilkes, W. ; Schlageter, G.

Author_Institution

Praktische Informatik I, Fern Univ., Hagen, Germany

fYear

1994

fDate

28 Feb-3 Mar 1994

Firstpage

600

Lastpage

604

Abstract

CAD frameworks allow to integrate various CAD tools into an integrated design environment. Such a design environment will give the designer more freedom in organizing his design process and he may follow more than only one predefined design path. This paper introduces a design consulting system which supports the designer in performing this additional task of organizing his design process. The system follows a distributed approach: several expert systems evaluate a given design situation on the basis of their local knowledge, and their results are combined into a common proposal as to how to perform the next design steps. The paper describes the underlying concepts and the implementation design of the design consultant prototype HANDICAP

Keywords

circuit CAD; expert systems; intelligent design assistants; logic CAD; CAD framework; CAD tools; HANDICAP; design consulting; design path; design process; design situation; distributed approach; expert systems; integrated design environment; local knowledge; Circuits; Design automation; Design methodology; Expert systems; Fabrication; Organizing; Performance evaluation; Process design; Proposals; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Design and Test Conference, 1994. EDAC, The European Conference on Design Automation. ETC European Test Conference. EUROASIC, The European Event in ASIC Design, Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5410-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDTC.1994.326918

Filename

326918