On modeling integrated design environments

• Published in: Euro-DAC '92, European Design Automation Conference : Euro-VHDL '92, Congress Centrum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, September 7-10, 1992 pp. 452 - 458
• Main Authors: Hübel, Christoph, Ruland, Detlev, Siepmann, Ernst
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos, CA, USA IEEE Computer Society Press 1992
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Applied computing > Arts and humanities > Architecture (buildings) > Computer-aided design; Applied computing > Physical sciences and engineering > Engineering > Computer-aided design; Hardware > Hardware validation > Functional verification > Simulation and emulation; Hardware > Very large scale integration design
• ISBN: 0818627808; 9780818627804
• DOI: 10.5555/159754.161791

Most existing approaches towards modeling design methodologies concentrate on modeling of design flows and design tools. Only a few of them consider the relationships between design methodology and design object modeling. Our approach towards modeling the heterogeneous aspects of design environments is based on a paradigm of separation and integration yielding an adequate, well structured, non-redundant, and integrated design model for generic design environments. The design model consists of five partial models: (1) design flow model, (2) design tool model, (3) design structure model, (4) design object model, and (5) design subject model. The design structure model is introduced for modeling on a higher level of abstraction exactly those aspects of design objects which are necessary for design methodology management. The applied concept is called design object abstraction.