The Potential for Mechanical Design Compilation ∗ †
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چکیده
Significant potential exists for engineering design research to produce viable approaches to automatic compilation of mechanical systems. In a recent article in a prior issue of this journal [9], Dr. Whitney articulated his view of why the design of mechanical systems is not now, and will not be, similar to the design of VLSI systems. An alternative view suggests that his conclusions are overly negative, and that significant potential exists for the development of approaches to compilation of mechanical systems (in analogy to compilation of digital VLSI). Dr. Whitney nicely summarizes some of the basic aspects of VLSI and mechanical design in the first few pages of his article. In the latter sections he raises several good points about the intrinsic aspects of mechanical design that introduce difficulties, including: • the back-loading of upstream subsystems from downstream functions: “. . . VLSI elements do not back-load each other. That is, they do not draw significant power from each other but instead pass information or control in one direction only. These facts combine to ∗Manuscript prepared for submission to Research in Engineering Design. †Word Count: 1825 words.
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