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Hewijin Christine Jiau and Kuo-Feng Ssu
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, 701 Taiwan
Considering that computer-aided-design (CAD) based technology is advancing, it is
surprising how time-consuming and complex applications are. If there is no other new
way to help designers, then not only will the whole design process become more difficult,
but the quality of the final product will not be promising. Also, generating prototype designs
in the early stages of development tends to reduce the errors that might have lasting
impacts on the reliability and cost of the final product. To achieve this, new methods
will be needed in the CAD world to extend reuse technology to the design process. We
propose an OO based rapid prototyping framework for the CAD world to facilitate rapid
prototyping and storage for future reuse. During the design (reuse) process, toolboxes are
selected automatically/semi-automatically for the CAD development process. Thus, tool
election, integration, and adoption problems can be dealt with in the design process instead
of a separate development process. This also means that with this OO design
framework, tool reuse and design data reuse can be automatically integrated into the design
process, providing a new method for the whole CAD development process.
Received March 1, 2004; revised June 4, 2004; accepted June 14, 2004.
Communicated by H. Y. Mark Liao
* This research was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan, under contracts No. NSC
92-2213- E-006-072 and No. NSC 93-2622-E-006-004.