16.

The design process supported by present CAD tools tends to be component oriented rather than dealing with a product as a whole. Furthermore, design evaluation tools often need complete product descriptions to give meaningful results. Presented here is a brief exposition of the architecture and capabilities of an Assembly-oriented Design environment that is currently being developed. It will all...

In this report, we firstly introduce several CAD tools in FPGA architecture and CAD research. Then we outline a typical CAD flow and use these tools to evaluate it. In the demo experiment, we select a small MCNC benchmark circuit as an input to the CAD flow, and then we give our results. Finally, we draw some conclusions and make plans for our future research.

The aim of synthetic biology is to make genetic systems more amenable to engineering, which has naturally led to the development of computer-aided design (CAD) tools. Experimentalists still primarily rely on project-specific ad hoc workflows instead of domain-specific tools, which suggests that CAD tools are lagging behind the front line of the field. Here, we discuss the scientific hurdles tha...

Recently in the eld of building CAD, research and development in CAD and data sharing among CAD tools has introduced object-oriented technology. This technology has brought object-oriented CAD tools that allow users to designing buildings by means of architectural objects and the standard data speci cation IFC (Industry Foundation Classes), which is involved in the architectural CALS (Commerce ...

Virtual Reality (VR)-based assembly and disassembly analysis systems have been in use for several years. There have also been various efforts at creating bi-directional integration between CAD systems and VR-based assembly systems. The next step in this integration is to provide the capabilities of CAD and the immersive systems under one umbrella. This paper presents an open/extensible architec...