Web based service provision a case study: Electronic design automation

Abstract

As inter enterprise cooperation on the Internet becomes more dynamic and heterogeneous, web services have been widely declared as the foundation for a new Internet service structure. In the future the Web will be populated with many interconnecting self-describing services. Organisations will not only provide their own dedicated services via the web, but they will also provide services to interact and cooperate with other organisations services. To promote an increase in design and intellectual property reuse there is a need for more efficient management of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and computing resources. This makes this area an ideal case study for web based service provision. In this paper we investigate current web based design tools. We then propose two possible business models for companies wishing to offer such a service. Taking these models we devised an architecture specifically designed for offering a web based Electronic Design Automation service. This framework is subsequently implemented and a demonstration system is presented. © Springer-Verlag 2004.