An advanced infrastructure for collaborative engineering in electronic design automation

Engineering collaboration gets its new global dimension with the omnipotent access to Internet. Engineers have severe requirements concerning: security of design data, quality of net connections, easiness of collaboration, etc. This article presents visions and middleware architecture to establish pan-European collaborative engineering infrastructure and its application in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). We present a transparent infrastructure to engineers to enable their Internet-based collaboration during the design of complex electronic systems. In this context, we introduce an advanced collaborative infrastructure (ACI) for distance spanning, tool integration, and administration as well as…