Electronic Design Automation Frameworks

One Transaction-Based Approaches.- 1 Transaction-based design data processing in the PRIMA framework.- 2 A configurable cooperative transaction model for design frameworks.- Two Data Management and Tool Integration.- 3 Configuration management in the STAR framework.- 4 Autocap: an automatic tool encapsulator.- 5 Schema evolution in the STAR framework.- Three Data Types.- 6 Integration of a domain conceptual model with the EDIF information model.- 7 Generating abstract datatypes with remote access capabilities.- 8 Extending view technology for complex integration tasks.- Four Federated Systems.- 9 Framework and multi-formalism: the ASAR project.- 10 Enhancing the data openness of frameworks by database federation services.- 11 Interoperability support by integration of EXPRESS models.- Five Communicationn and Distribution.- 12 Communication in a distributed environment.- 13 Basic requirements for an efficient inter-framework-communication.- 14 Resource-oriented load distribution in a framework environment.- Six Design Management.- 15 Design Flow Management: more than convenient tool invocation.- 16 Planning and managing multi-disciplinary and concurrent design processes.- 17 A user model supporting communication in high-level design systems.- Seven Special Design Environments.- 18 A framework for electrical test engineering automation.- 19 A compound information model for high-level synthesis.- 20 An object-oriented CAE framework for asynchronous circuit synthesis.- Eight Standards.- 21 Design representation in EDIF Version 3 0 0 and CFI Version 1.0.- 22 STEP technology for ECAD databases.- Nine Design Representation and Interfaces.- 23 Towards design formalization to support reuse in ECAD frameworks.- 24 A generator for graph-based design representations.- 25 The visualinterface of the STAR framework.- Index of contributors.