A two-tier distributed electronic design framework

Author

Kazmierski, Tom ; Clayton, Neil

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

231

Abstract

We present the concept of a distributed, web-based electronic design framework. The salient feature of our system is the extension of the client-server architecture to two-tiers, with the web server serving client requests whilst acting as client to the tool servers. In the sample application of the framework, developed in Java, any of the servers can be based on Linux, MS Windows or SunSPARC server. The web server that has been used to demonstrate the framework for on-line access to VAMS (a VHDL-AMS parser) and Avant! HSPICE is currently available for Linux but has been developed with a truly platform independent implementation in mind

Keywords

Internet; Java; client-server systems; electronic design automation; network servers; Avant! HSPICE; Java; VAMS; VHDL-AMS parser; client-server architecture; distributed electronic design framework; on-line access; platform independent implementation; tool servers; two-tier distributed electronic design framework; web server; web-based electronic design framework; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer science; Electrical capacitance tomography; Internet; Java; Linux; Packaging; Process design; Welding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2002. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1530-1591

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1471-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DATE.2002.998274

Filename

998274