Hardwareorientierte CAD-Systemarchitektur

The extension of the functionality of CAD systems by applying new software solutions is subject of many research and development activities. In this paper concepts for new CAD system architectures are described, under special consideration of innovations in the field of computer technology in a problem-oriented way. Providing more functionality requires a higher performance of the computers which can be achieved by using parallel computer. Ways of parallel processing for CAD as well as methods developed for this purpose are shown. Finally, a functional unit with a hardware-aided supervision of parallel-accessed semantic data structures with accelerating features is depicted.