Analog and mixed signal circuit and system ontology

In this paper we describe initial steps that we have taken to create an open source machine processable ontology to store domain knowledge about the analog and mixed signal circuit and systems. It is seen that an openly available semantic knowledge base could be beneficial in distributing circuit and system domain knowledge. This knowledge could be used to leverage productivity of the early phase architectural exploration by having easier access to review implementation domain. Main design goals for the ontology has been interoperability issues and transparency and re-usability of the described data. This is guaranteed by using standard knowledge representation language with well defined semantics and by associating all of the data in the ontology to the corresponding reference by using annotations.