Automated Platform Design Tool for Schematic Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing platform design tools face challenges in ensuring consistency across different designs due to varying 'look and feel' and naming conventions, requiring manual comparison and dependence on same component libraries, which is inefficient and prone to errors.
Innovation Solution
An automated platform design tool that extracts information from schematic files, builds a node network database, and compares designs based on component connections, identifying differences without relying on conventional reference designator annotation or component libraries, enabling efficient comparison of platform designs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual comparison methods are used to evaluate platform designs, then flexibility in handling different design styles is maintained, but time consumption and error rates increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical comparison processes with an automated computer-implemented system that extracts information from schematic files, builds node network databases, and automatically compares platform designs. This substitution eliminates human error and significantly reduces comparison time while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates standardized node network database copies from various schematic design files, enabling consistent representation of different designs in a unified format. This allows automated comparison without being affected by different design styles, naming conventions, or component libraries used in the original files.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different component libraries and naming conventions are used across design teams, then design flexibility and team autonomy are improved, but consistency and comparability between designs deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal node network database format that can represent components and connections from any component library or naming convention. The system extracts essential connectivity information and represents it in a standardized format that is independent of the original design style, enabling consistent comparison across diverse designs while preserving the ability to handle different libraries.
Solution Approach 2:
The node network database serves as an intermediary layer between diverse schematic design files and the comparison process. It translates various design representations into a common format, allowing the system to maintain flexibility in accepting different input styles while ensuring consistency in the comparison output.
3Measurement precision
If conventional reference designator annotation is required for component matching, then component identification precision is improved, but the complexity and rigidity of the comparison process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts essential connectivity information from schematic files and represents it in node network databases that are independent of conventional reference designator annotations. By focusing on the fundamental electrical connections rather than naming conventions, the system achieves component identification accuracy without requiring standardized annotations across all designs.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for an automated platform design tool are provided herein. An example method includes extracting information from a first file corresponding to a first computing design, the information including an identifier of at least one network, components associated with the identifier, and connections for each of the components; comparing the first computing design to a second computing design, wherein the comparing comprises: detecting that a second schematic file corresponding to the second computing design comprises the identifier, and determining, for at least one given component, whether the second schematic file includes a matching component based on the set of connections for the at least one given component; determining differences between the first computing design and the second computing design based on the results of the comparing; and initiating at least one automated action based at least in part on the one or more differences.