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Computer-automated design
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<p>Design Automation usually refers to <a href="/facts/Electronic_design_automation/o4la3fmX">electronic design automation</a>, or <a href="/facts/Design_Automation/7feVn7uA">Design Automation</a> which is a <a href="/facts/Product_Configurator/UWu7jQ69">Product Configurator</a>. Extending <a href="/facts/Computer-Aided_Design/5gSXrmmN">Computer-Aided Design</a> (CAD), automated design and Computer-Automated Design (CAutoD) are more concerned with a broader range of applications, such as <a href="/facts/Automotive_engineering/dspDKGwP">automotive engineering</a>, <a href="/facts/Civil_engineering/avh5kEq2">civil engineering</a>, <a href="/facts/Composite_material/UBysQldh">composite material</a> design, <a href="/facts/Control_engineering/5ckfXmB8">control engineering</a>, dynamic <a href="/facts/System_identification/v2xk1X0e">system identification</a> and optimization, <a href="/facts/Financial/fLh1GgN8">financial</a> systems, industrial equipment, <a href="/facts/Mechatronic/bfxokpu6">mechatronic</a> systems, <a href="/facts/Steel_construction/W2zJdnCg">steel construction</a>, structural <a href="/facts/Optimization_(mathematics)/oRn8Iv5I">optimisation</a>, and the invention of novel systems. </p><p>The concept of CAutoD perhaps first appeared in 1963, in the IBM Journal of Research and Development, where a computer program was written. </p> <ol><li>to search for logic circuits having certain constraints on hardware design</li> <li>to evaluate these logics in terms of their discriminating ability over samples of the character set they are expected to recognize.</li></ol> <p>More recently, traditional CAD simulation is seen to be transformed to CAutoD by biologically-inspired <a href="/facts/Machine_learning/e0w0XJTu">machine learning</a>, including heuristic <a href="/facts/Search_algorithm/eJuw0nyz">search techniques</a> such as <a href="/facts/Evolutionary_computation/qXyxPI8j">evolutionary computation</a>, and <a href="/facts/Swarm_intelligence/fI8461G4">swarm intelligence</a> algorithms. </p>