As large, complex and networked yet intelligent information systems become the focus and
norm for computing, software issues covering a wide range of issues such as data and web …

The CAD framework, ie the underlying facilities provided to the CAD tool developer, the CAD
system integrator, and the end-user (IC or system designer) to facilitate their tasks, is …

When it comes to frameworks, the familiar story of the elephant and the six blind
philosophers seems to apply. As each philoso pher encountered a separate part of the …

An object-oriented approach to management of engineering design data requires object
persistence, object-specific rules for concurrency control and recovery, views, complex …

An experimental object base management system called Gordion is presented. Gordion is a
server which provides permanence and sharing of objects for workstations within an object …

A unified design representation can work. This has always been considered impractical due
to major problems of run time, space, tool interdependencies, and multiple representations …

An integrated software system for structural engineering must include application program
modules for many different tasks. These tasks include geometric modeling, conceptual …

A special-purpose database management system for VLSI design environment is presented.
Besides supporting design data management and tools integration, the system provides lots …

A description is given of a suite of utilities for manipulating VHDL (VHSIC Hardware
Description Language) designs that has been developed and integrated into a CAD …

Designing a VLSI chip is almost always an iterative process and a group effort. As a result,
proliferation of design versions, becomes one of the most important issues in the …