Mechanisms for Requirements Driven Component Selection and Design Automation

Power and Timing Driven Physical Design Automation

Fixture Design Automation and Optimization Techniques: Review and Future Trends

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...

Requirements-driven Satellite System Design

The Skynet 5 system will provide military satellite communications to all three UK armed services, and is to be procured as a ‘private finance initiative’ (PFI). Though there are many PFI projects across all parts of the public sector, this is the first time that such an approach has been taken for providing military satellite communications. On 26 February 2002, the Ministry of Defence announc...

Model-Driven Flow for Assistive Home Automation System Design

People with disabilities sometimes have considerable difficulties, or even physical incapacities, performing daily tasks independently. Many research works have introduced home automation as a useful way to overcome these activity limitations. However, very few of these accomplishments have focused on the design of intelligent systems which would allow nonexperts to model and to adapt a home au...

ADL-driven Methodologies for Design Automation of Embedded Processors

This chapter describes various ADL-driven methodologies for the development of efficient and reliable embedded processors. TheADLs designed for a specific domain (such as DSP or VLIW) or for a specific purpose (such as simulation or compilation) can be compact, and it is possible to automatically generate efficient tools and hardwares. However, it is difficult to design an ADL for a wide variet...