Developing Expert CAD Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)

The importance of CAD to electronics technology Computer-aided design (CAD) is one way of coping with the problem of how to design and build very complex systems. This problem is particularly acute in electronics technology. Designs are now (1984) said to be design-limited, rather than technology-limited. It can take months to generate a design for a chip, so that it might be obsolete before it can be manufactured. Manual design of large-scale integration (LSI) chips (circa 10,000 gates) is almost impossible. However, using current technology it is possible to produce chips having 250,000 gates. It is understandable, therefore, that there is great interest in improving existing CAD systems. Designers of CAD systems are concerned with formalizing and automating as much of the design task as possible. Automating design of any kind has long been acknowledged as a project fraught with intractable problems. A human designer has to have an understanding of the nature of the materials used in manufacture, a knowledge of common problems and well-tried solutions, and above all, creativity in producing new designs. Understanding, knowledge and creativity are three properties even the most artificially intelligent of computer programs have been entirely lacking in until very recently. Some people would deny computers these qualities entirely, on philosophical grounds (eg Dreyfus 1979; Searle 1981). There are few theories in cognitive psychology which can help.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	June 1987
First published:	June 1987
Authors:	V. Begg
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	118
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
ISBN-13:	978-1-85091-298-9
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > Computer aided design (CAD) Promotions
LSN:	1-85091-298-X
Barcode:	9781850912989

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