MULLEN@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (01/17/84)
From: Juanita Mullen <MULLEN@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
[Reprinted from the Stanford SIGLUNCH distribution.]
Friday, January 20, 1984 12:05
LOCATION: Chemistry Gazebo, between Physical & Organic Chemistry
SPEAKER: Harold Brown
Stanford University
TOPIC: Palladio: An Exploratory Environment for Circuit Design
Palladio is an environment for experimenting with design methodologies
and knowledge-based design aids. It provides the means for
constructing, testing and incrementally modifying design tools and
languages. Palladio is a testbed for investigationg elements of
design including specification, simulation, refinement and use of
previous designs.
For the designer, Palladio supports the construction of new
specification languages particular to the design task at hand and
augmentation of the system's expert knowledge to reflect current
design goals and constraints. For the design environment builder,
Palladio provides several programming paradigms: rule based, object
oriented, data oriented and logical reasoning based. These
capabilities are largely provided by two of the programming systems in
which Palladio is implemented: LOOPS and MRS.
In this talk, we will describe the basic design concepts on which
Palladio is based, give examples of knowledge-based design aids
developed within the environment, and describe Palladio's
implementation.