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A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world

A design control system suitable for use in connection with the design of integrated circuits and other elements of manufacture having many parts which need to be developed in a concurrent engineering environment with inputs provided by users and or systems which may be located anywhere in the world providing a set of control information for coordinating movement of the design information through development and to release while providing dynamic tracking of the status of elements of the bills of materials in an integrated and coordinated activity control system utilizing a repository which can be implemented in the form of a database (relational, object oriented, etc.) or using a flat file system. Once a model is created and/or identified by control information design libraries hold the actual pieces of the design under control of the system without limit to the number of libraries, and providing for tracking and hierarchical designs which are allowed to traverse through multiple libraries. Data Managers become part of the design team, and libraries are programmable to meet the needs of the design group they service.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method for computerized design automation comprising,accessing a file and database management system for managing a plurality of projects as a design control system,organizing data repository for each project for data records and a control repository comprising a common

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method for computerized design automation comprising,accessing a file and database management system for managing a plurality of projects as a design control system,organizing data repository for each project for data records and a control repository comprising a common access interface and one or more databases,said control repository communicating with users of said design control system for fulfilling requests of a user and the data repositories of said data management control system through a plurality of managers, each manager performing a unique function; andcombining selected ones of said managers for supporting an computerized design automation application environment suitable for multiple users of a user community located at workstations anywhere in the world accessible via a network, an intranet, extranet or via the internet; anddefining for each project a control repository and one or more data repositories to store, manage and manipulate any data object, whereby said control repository communicates with users and the data repositories in numerous ways to support environments ranging from a small user community to a global enterprise; andtracking all data and control information in an architecturally centralized location consisting of said data repository and said control repository using a single logical PFVL paradigm to identify all data in the DMS by Package, File Type, (Data Type), Version and Level, and wherein packages are arbitrary divisions of data, whereby all the data has some common association to a library.