Recent trends in the integration of process, device and circuit modeling tools and the current rapid emergence of UNIX® based computing environments of networked workstations and compute engines makes possible user-friendly, taskbased CAD systems for technology optimization, characterization and cell design. The paper discusses these trends and identifies opportunities to leverage Technology CA...

The database field has worked on metadata-related problems for 30 years. Examples include data translation and migration, schema evolution, database design, schema / ontology integration, XML wrapper generation, data scrubbing and transformation for data warehouses, message mapping for e-business, and schema-driven web site design. Tools that address these problems are strikingly similar in the...

As the number, and diversity, of computer aided design tools used by VLSI circuit designers continues to grow, the need for CAD frameworks increases. While a precise definition of a CAD framework is difficult to give, it is convenient to view a CAD framework as a collection of underlying facilities and services that support activities performed by CAD tool developers, CAD system integrators, an...

Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...