Dr Dirk Schaefer of Georgia Tech (USA) presents an overview of recent advances in ECAD systems development. The domain of electrical computer-aided design and engineering (ECAD/ECAE) is currently undergoing major and rapid change. The globalisation of markets has significantly enforced companies to increase their productivity in order to sustain their competitiveness. Computer-aided design (CAD) tools developed in the early 1990s no longer meet future requirements. Moreover, due to their Monolithic software architectures they can not be sufficiently, a new generation of ECAD/ECAE systems, often referred to as 'electrical engineering solutions (EES)', have recently been under development. New modular system architectures, contemporary software engineering tools and object-oriented approaches have been deployed, to develop a novel generation of advanced engineering software systems.
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