Methodology for supporting electronic system prototyping through semiautomatic component selection

Abstract

A new methodology and custom software tool is presented in this paper, which supports partial automation of designing and prototyping of electronic systems. The emphasis is put on component selection stage, which is realized in a substantially different way comparing to widely used parematric search engines. In presented approach besides of individual (component-level) parameters, also system-level constraints can be defined. As a result several sets of components fulfilling initial needs are automatically generated for further processing (i.e. system level modeling).Together with the use of parameterized circuit templates and integration with external simulation tools like SPICE presented methodology speeds-up designing of electronic systems thanks to semi-automatic selection of system components from thousands of possible choices.