| Our society of consumption exerts enormous pressures on the embedded systems industry. These pressures are mainly due to expectations which are often contradictory and not easily reconcilable. In order to cope with the situation, the industry has rapidly developed and evolved techniques and manufacturing processes for electronic systems. In spite of this evolution, an important gap exists between our capacity to integrate transistors and our systems design capabilities to use these transistors effectively. This gap does nothing but exacerbate the difficulties of industries to fulfill the expectations of the market. CAD tools arc a promising means to cross this gap. The effectiveness of these tools is an important criterion for their success. Their effectiveness is largely influenced by the technologies and the design approaches used for their implementation. The software community has developed several technologies and approaches which can be greatly beneficial to CAD tools development. This thesis presents innovative ideas for the design and the realization of CAD tools. These ideas are based on the use of modem software technologies. Several accomplishments will also be presented which support these ideas. The main technologies that will be discussed within this work are the Net platform, the Semantic Web, model-driven designdevelopment and design patterns.;Key words: embedded systems. Net, Semantic Web, CAD, model-driven design, Y-Chart... |
