COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN SYSTEM OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC MODELS
The article describes a distributed design system, which is based on the multi-agent approach. A developed system architecture that describes the place and role of both system and its main subsystems in the distributed design process is presented. The interaction modes and the functionality of agents in the system are described. A structural and functional linguistic model generated from a designed device description by means of the VHDL language, one of the main objects with which agents and designers interact is considered. The main scenarios of interaction between the agents and a graph representation of such scenario are described. Basic technologies playing an important role in the process of the distributed-design system functioning are shown. A composition and a description of the internal and external dataware component functionality of the developed system are represented. A proposed solution in a form of a distributed design system is aimed at the quality improvement and the reduction of costs during a design solution creation.