State-of-the Art Review: Organization of Japanese Research and Development Computed-Aided Design

该奖项将派遣马里兰大学电子工程系教授杰弗里•弗雷（Jeffrey Frey）前往日本，调查日本半导体制造企业如何以最高效率组织其研发（r&d）业务。这项研究是由私营企业（半导体研究公司（SRC））赞助的一项大型研究的日本部分，该研究比较了美国多达五个CAD软件开发项目的组织。总体目标是确定日本的组织方法在软件开发中是否像在硬件开发中一样有效，评估日本在未来软件开发中成功的可能性，并评估日本计算机辅助设计（CAD）的当前艺术状态。

This State-of-the-Art survey award will send Professor Jeffrey Frey, of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Maryland, to Japan to survey how Japanese semiconductor manufacturers have organized their R&D operations for maximum efficiency. The study is the Japanese half of a larger study, sponsored by private industry (the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)), comparing the organization of up to five CAD software development projects in the United States. The overall objectives are to determine whether Japanese organizational methods work as well in software development as for hardware, to assess the likelihood of Japanese success in future software develop- ment, and to assess the current state of the art in computer- aided design (CAD) in Japan.