Design automation utilizing a modified polish notation

Abstract

Our first objective in developing the Design Automation (DA) System described herein was to produce and maintain, using a digital computer, the manufacturing and field service documents for a small electronic calculator. However, as a long range objective we wanted a system capable of handling the documentation for virtually any digital computing device, and aiding in certain design functions. On the surface this appears to be the very task performed by existing DA systems but as it turns out the construction techniques used on the calculator give rise to problems not normally handled by these systems.