Planning Grant to Establish an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center: CALCE/RAMCAD Center for Electronics

这笔赠款用于一项关于电子系统可靠性、可用性、可维护性计算机辅助设计(RAMCAD)的产学合作研究中心的可行性研究。工业上迫切需要缩短电子设计滞后时间，提高设计效率。规划中心的目标是开发计算机辅助生命周期工程模型、技术和工具。这包括识别可以并行完成的设计任务，需要在复杂需求之间进行优化集成的任务，以及可以应用于辅助设计工程师的决策支持技术。电子系统RAMCAD的I/UCRC似乎是满足上述需求的一种方法。人们正在研究替代的组织、运营和政策，以及行业在研究方面的兴趣和需求。这项研究还在确定，随着NSF资金的逐步取消，该中心是否有潜力在五年内通过工业资金实现自给自足。

This grant funds a study of the viability and feasibility of an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Computer-Aided Design (RAMCAD) of Electronic Systems. There is a great industrial need to reduce electronic design lag time and improve design efficiency. The objective of the planned center is to develop computer-aided life cycle engineering models, techniques and tools. This includes identification of design tasks which can be accomplished in parallel, tasks which need integration in the sense of optimization between complicating requirements, and decision support techniques which can be applied to assist design engineers. An I/UCRC for RAMCAD of Electronic Systems appears to be one approach to satisfy the noted need. Alternative organizations, operations, and policies are being studied as are industry's interests and needs in research. The study is also determining if the Center has the potential to become self-sufficient with industrial funding in a five year period as NSF funding is phased out.//