Electrical circuit description in the form of computer language.

This paper proposes a language—Circuit Description Language (CDL)—to describe the information of a circuit for computer-aided analysis and design. The syntax of CDL provides strong modularity, making it possible to build a circuit using other previously defined circuits (building-block construction of a circuit). This feature allows building a library of standard power-system models. In this paper, example circuits are described using CDL in order to show the power of modularity. © 2000 Scripta Technica, Electr Eng Jpn, 133(4): 1–7, 2000 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]