If you are interested in our ongoing work, the GSRC Center will extend some of the work done in WELD.

Objective

The WELD project aims to construct the first operational prototype of a national-scale CAD design environment enabling Internet-wide IC design for the U.S. electronics industry. WELD's goals are dual. In the small, WELD will empower individual American electronics designers by affording them efficient desktop access to, and seamless interoperability of, the numerous, heterogeneous resources forming a national scale electronics design system built upon the National Information Infrastructure. In the large, WELD will reduce electronics industry market entry barriers to new entrepreneurs by providing a streamlined design development environment and a robust software distribution infrastructure.