Case Histories on Knowledge-Based Design Systems for LSI and Software

Masanobu WATANABE  Toru YAMANOUCHI  Masahiko IWAMOTO  Satoru FUJITA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E78-D   No.9   pp.1164-1170
Publication Date: 1995/09/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Knowledge Based Software Engineering)
Category: Applications
Keyword: 
knowledge-based design systems,  LSI circuit synthesis,  software synthesis,  intelligent control shell,  term rewriting system,  frame,  production system,  

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Summary: 
This paper describes, from a system architectural viewpoint, how knowledge-based technologies have been utilized in developing EXLOG (an LSI circuit synthesis system) and SOFTEX (a software synthesis system) inside the authors' projects. Although the system architectures for EXLOG and SOFTEX started from the same production systems, consisting of transformation rules in the middle of the 1980's, both branched off in different directions in the 1990's. Based on experiences with EXLOG and SOFTEX, the differences between LSI and software design models are discussed, and the future directions are indicated for the knowledge-based design system architectures.