The aim of this work is to use formal games as foundation for a design tool which provides support for the exploration and evaluation of software design in UML. The designer sets up a game on the basis of a UML model and repeatedly plays a game with the tool to detect flaws or incompleteness in the design. During a play the game definition including the underlying UML model may be incremented. ...

A goal of this project is reproducing human design process by accumulating knowledge and experience of human designers. Particularly, this paper presents an SDL-based software design tool, the experimental expert system CREATOR2, featuring: 1) integration of SDL-based CASE tools with knowledge-based reasoning techniques; 2) object-oriented (O-O) representation of the design process knowledge, c...

Building practitioners (architects, engineers, energy managers) are showing a growing interest in the design of more energy efficient and livable buildings. The best way to predict how a building will behave regarding energy consumption and thermal comfort is to use a dynamic simulation tool. However, the use of this kind of tools is difficult on a daily basis practice due to the heuristic and ...

The database system EKIDES (Ergonomics Knowledge and Intelligent Design System) assists designers of technical systems, equipment, products and workplaces to meet ergonomic requirements for all system components and their interactions during the planning, development and subsequent design and blueprint processes. EKIDES is a design tool in form of an electronic reference system and an evaluatio...

The basic elements of model-based design for space missions have existed for almost a decade, awaiting an opportunity to implement them in the same place at the same time. In early design phases, combinations of models, concurrent engineering methods, and scenario-driven design have been used for several years with results that have exceeded even optimistic expectations; hut the goal of extendi...

Portable embedded systems are being driven by consumer demands to be thermally efficient, perform faster, and have longer battery life. To design such a system, various hardware units (e.g., level one (L1) and level two (L2) caches, functional units, registers) are selected based on a set of specifications for a particular application. Currently, chip architects are using software tools to manu...

This paper presents Anahita Processor Description Language (APDL) for generation of retargetable processor design tool sets. The emphasis is on the applicability of the generated tools in the design space exploration (DSE) phase of designing a new embedded processor. APDL descriptions can be used for generating cycle-accurate instruction set simulators, assembler/disassembler tools, production ...

This paper presents an efficient design tool for the estimation of the transient electromagnetic peak torque and transient rotor over-voltages of wind turbines (WT) doubly-fed induction generators (DFIG) during severe fault conditions on the grid side. This versatile and robust tool is well adapted to the implementation in a DFIG drives CAD environment using iterative optimization procedures. I...

In this paper we present the idea of Mission Level Design (MLD) for complex systems. MLD can be thought of as a test of a system design on an abstract level. Therefore, the simulation of an overall system model is used to find problems in the early design phases and gives developers first results of system performance and characteristics. The overall system model is configured by missions, whic...

A new CAD tool used for the interactive exploration of a design space has been developed. The interactive nature of the tool facilitates the acquisition of designer knowledge which may accelerate the development of improved circuit topologies in the future. The tool's cross-platform compatibility and network centric architecture prevents reinvention and facilitates organization-wide or worldwid...