GERMINAL(ID:7098/ger008)

Itegrated CAD system 

for the month of March (Spring) after the French Revolution, but also after the "Germinal" stage in design

Integrated CAD system developed at Thompson in France
References:
  • Jacquart, R.; Regnier, P. and Valette, F.R. "Presentation of GERMINAL" view details
          in Journées Graphiques de l'AFCET, Paris, December 1973 view details
  • Foisseau, Jack; R. Jacquart, François-Régis Valette: "Means and Levels of Knowledge Representation in the CAD System Germinal" 689-694 view details
          in Rosenfeld, Jack L. (Ed.): Information Processing 74, Proceedings of IFIP Congress 74, Stockholm, Sweden, August 5-10, 1974 view details
  • Jacquart, R.; Regnier, Ph.; Valette, F. R. "GERMINAL: towards a general and integrated system for CAD" view details
          in Proceedings of the Workshop on General Purpose CAD systems, C.E.R.T., Toulouse, Dec. 1974 view details
  • Jacquart, R.; Regnier, Ph.; Valette, F. R. "GERMINAL: Towards a general and integrated system for computer aided design", p352-358 view details Abstract: In 1969 a symposium involving CAD took place in Davenport -USA-. We quote from the report [1]: ?we felt that the confusion regarding the definition of the term ?CAD? was, in itself, a characterization of the State-of-the-art?. Four years later a certain confusion still remains. This is an evidence of the fact that the field of computer-aided design is still largely unexplored. We have determined three steps in the development of CAD as of the present time. In the first step, computers were used to execute a set of routines, each of them defined to work autonomously and to perform a single task. This task contributed to the evaluation or determination of a particular aspect of a design process in any field. Because there had been an opportunity to use a computer other than in batch mode, and because it was found interesting to have the possibility of communicating between several different programs which contribute to the same design process, improvement on the first step had been attempted.


          in Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE Design Automation Workshop, January 1974 view details
  • Jacquart, R.; Regnier, Ph.; Valette, F. R. "Le Système GERMINAL", Rapport de presentation générale view details
          in Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE Design Automation Workshop, January 1974 view details
  • Jacquart, R.; Regnier, Ph., Valette, F. R. and Foissau, J. "Current trends in the development of integrated general purpose CAD systems" pp180-188 view details
          in Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference 1975 view details