Design frameworks have become an important infrastructure for building complex design systems. Electronic Design Automation Frameworks presents a state-of-the-art review of the latest research results covering this topic; results which are also of value for other design frameworks. The book contains the selected proceedings of the Fourth International Working Conference on Electronic Design Frameworks, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Gramado, Brazil, in November 1994.

One Transaction-Based Approaches.- 1 Transaction-based design data processing in the PRIMA framework.- 2 A configurable cooperative transaction model for design frameworks.- Two Data Management and Tool Integration.- 3 Configuration management in the STAR framework.- 4 Autocap: an automatic tool encapsulator.- 5 Schema evolution in the STAR framework.- Three Data Types.- 6 Integration of a domain conceptual model with the EDIF information model.- 7 Generating abstract datatypes with remote access capabilities.- 8 Extending view technology for complex integration tasks.- Four Federated Systems.- 9 Framework and multi-formalism: the ASAR project.- 10 Enhancing the data openness of frameworks by database federation services.- 11 Interoperability support by integration of EXPRESS models.- Five Communicationn and Distribution.- 12 Communication in a distributed environment.- 13 Basic requirements for an efficient inter-framework-communication.- 14 Resource-oriented load distribution in a framework environment.- Six Design Management.- 15 Design Flow Management: more than convenient tool invocation.- 16 Planning and managing multi-disciplinary and concurrent design processes.- 17 A user model supporting communication in high-level design systems.- Seven Special Design Environments.- 18 A framework for electrical test engineering automation.- 19 A compound information model for high-level synthesis.- 20 An object-oriented CAE framework for asynchronous circuit synthesis.- Eight Standards.- 21 Design representation in EDIF Version 3 0 0 and CFI Version 1.0.- 22 STEP technology for ECAD databases.- Nine Design Representation and Interfaces.- 23 Towards design formalization to support reuse in ECAD frameworks.- 24 A generator for graph-based design representations.- 25 The visualinterface of the STAR framework.- Index of contributors.