Abstract
Tool Management involves the characterization and control of tools. Successfully running a CAD tool can be very complicated, as the designer needs to know many details, such as where the tool is located, the runtime environment required by the tool, how to invoke the tool, the command syntax of the tool, what translators need to be run beforehand, and what computer resources are required. At one stage the number of tools used in any particular design environment was small enough for designers to understand all of them. In this situation, with the absence of automated facilities for controlling the sequencing of tools, no characterization was necessary. The number of tools has grown considerably in the past few years, however, and it has become difficult for a designer to understand all of the tools available for design and analysis. Thus work has been done on building uniform interfaces for tools and providing consistent approaches to tool encapsulation.
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Barnes, T.J., Harrison, D., Newton, A.R., Spickelmier, R.L. (1992). Tool Management. In: Electronic CAD Frameworks. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 185. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3558-4_5
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