2 The Application-Framework Architecture

I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of ideas, than to have one that contains many good but independent and uncoordinated ideas.

FREDERICK P. BROOKS, JR. The Mythical Man-Month [40]

• 2.1 Some Basic Considerations
  • Tool, Application
  • Data Level
  • Task Level and Task Flow
  • Presentation Level
  • Application Framework Architecture
  • Application Integration and Application Development
• 2.2 Review of Existing TCAD Systems
  • Data Level Aspects
  • Task Level Aspects
  • Presentation Level Aspects
  • Overall Architecture and Tool Integration
• 2.3 Problem Analysis
  • 2.3.1 Human Aspects of TCAD Methodology
  • 2.3.2 Why Simulation is Always Late
    • Little Changes
    • Big Changes
  • 2.3.3 The Application-Framework Idea
• 2.4 Requirements
  • 2.4.1 Bottom-Up Design
  • 2.4.2 Design Principles
  • 2.4.3 Qualitative Functional Requirements
• 2.5 VISTA
  • 2.5.1 History and Structure
  • 2.5.2 The Base System
    • Base System Library
    • Application Development
    • Vienna MAKE
    • The Tool Abstraction Concept
  • 2.5.3 The Data Level
  • 2.5.4 Task Level and User Interface
  • 2.5.5 Generic Services