THE ELECTRICAL DESIGN IN A HIGHLY DEMANDING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The evolution of the computer-aided design tools have moved from custom-made applications, covering separate aspects with little connection to the surrounding items, to COTS fully integrated global solutions that provide almost complete information for all the stages, not only during the design phase, but for the manufacturing, mounting and even the complete ship life-cycle management. If a particular aspect must be highlighted, then integration is the word. Electrical design is, no doubt on that, subject to benefit from the development of such integration. Submarines are considered among the most difficult vessel designs, compared only with space crafts in terms of complexity, number of occurrences and integration between systems. It is, therefore, rocket science, so any help from the state-of-the-art computer tools is welcome. Along the present paper, some figures taken from the Spanish MOD's S80 class submarine will subscribe this statement.