Matsushita Electric has developed an automatic recognition system for logic circuit diagrams consisting of a scanner and a 32-bit workstation and calls the system Ars-Logic: it reads hand-drawn LSI design diagrams and converts them into design instructions; the system then sorts the data into linear, graphic and character data, correctly identifying the graphic data patterns […]
Matsushita Electric has developed an automatic recognition system for logic circuit diagrams consisting of a scanner and a 32-bit workstation and calls the system Ars-Logic: it reads hand-drawn LSI design diagrams and converts them into design instructions; the system then sorts the data into linear, graphic and character data, correctly identifying the graphic data patterns using knowledge-based rules, and the result is a system with a claimed 99% recognition accuracy, reducing three or four hours’ work on an A3 diagram to six minutes; it will initially be used for custom LSI.
