A Simple Model of Circuit Design

Title: en_US A Simple Model of Circuit Design
Creator: en_US Roylance, Gerald
Date: 2004-10-20T20:03:25Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:03:25Z
Date Issued: en_US 1980-05-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-703
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6865
Abstract: en_US A simple analog circuit designer has been implemented as a rule based system. The system can design voltage followers. Miller integrators, and bootstrap ramp generators from functional descriptions of what these circuits do. While the designer works in a simple domain where all components are ideal, it demonstrates the abilities of skilled designers. While the domain is electronics, the design ideas are useful in many other engineering domains, such as mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and numerical programming. Most circuit design systems are given the circuit schematic and use arithmetic constraints to select component values. This circuit designer is different because it designs the schematic. The designer uses a unidirectional CONTROL relation to find the schematic. The circuit designs are built around this relation; it restricts the search space, assigns purposes to components and finds design bugs.
Extent: en_US 65 p.; 7664383 bytes; 2847543 bytes
Format: application/postscript; application/pdf
Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-703