Developing a distributed architecture for design rule checking

This paper describes the design and implementation of a distributed object-oriented Design Rule Checker (DRC). The majn focus is on the methodology employed to implement this distributed application. Code reusability is achieved using an 00 approach, making objects available for other tools, such as circuit extractor. The paper also addresses the application of design pattems, which produce loosely coupled elements, facilitating the jntegration of system modules