Here you'll find documents, software, and links to other resources
on the topic of tool encapsulation.
Unfortunately, this page is rather old and no longer maintained.
You will find my new home on the web at my company contAire
or, more personally at my personal web site.
Browse through my PhD Thesis entitled Encapsulating Tools into
an EDA Framework or download its postscript files for printing. Here
you will find the design of a complete software
package for design tool encapsulation as well as many links to other
people's work. You may want to read the summary
first. A dutch version is also available.
This paper, entitled Towards Support for Design Description Languages
in EDA Frameworks is located on the Web site of FIT,
the Framework Integration Technology Group at GMD.