An object-oriented VLSI CAD framework

Author

Gupta, Rajiv ; Cheng, Wesley H. ; Gupta, Rajesh ; Hardonag, Ido ; Breuer, Melvin A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

22

Issue

5

fYear

1989

fDate

5/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

37

Abstract

It is shown, in the context of an actual prototype VLSI CAD framework called Cbase, how concepts such as data abstraction, property and operation inheritance, object specialization/generalization, code reusability, and polymorphism offered by object-oriented database management systems (OODBMSs) support rapid prototyping. The work was conducted on Vbase, a commercially available OODBMS, but the results and conclusions apply to any database with comparable capabilities. To implement the prototype user interface, the X11 toolkit, a windowing package that is also built around the object paradigm, was used.<>

Keywords

VLSI; circuit CAD; data structures; database management systems; object-oriented programming; software engineering; user interfaces; Cbase; OODBMS; Vbase; X11 toolkit; code reusability; data abstraction; object paradigm; object specialization/generalization; object-oriented VLSI CAD framework; object-oriented database management systems; operation inheritance; polymorphism; property inheritance; prototype VLSI CAD; prototype user interface; rapid prototyping; windowing package; Application software; Communication system software; Database systems; Design engineering; Programming profession; Prototypes; Software design; Software prototyping; Very large scale integration; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.27954

Filename

27954