Circuit Design Editor with Spatially Adaptive Net Segment Overlays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current circuit design editors require significant time and resources for simulations and data storage due to their inefficiencies in processing and presenting complex circuit designs, particularly in determining and visualizing layout and schematic features.
Innovation Solution
An electronic circuit design editor with spatially adaptive overlays that selectively render segment indicators corresponding to net segments, allowing for efficient determination and visualization of both layout and schematic features in a single interface, enabling incremental reprocessing and intuitive editing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the entire circuit design is reprocessed to determine effects of changes, then accuracy of simulation results is improved, but time and computational resources are excessively consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The circuit design is divided into net segments, allowing the system to process and simulate only the affected segments when changes are made, rather than reprocessing the entire circuit. This segmentation enables incremental updates that maintain accuracy while significantly reducing simulation time and computational resources.
2Loss of information
If all features of the circuit are presented in the editor interface, then completeness of design information is improved, but device complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The circuit design features are segmented into layout-based features and schematic-based features, which are then overlaid in a unified interface. This allows comprehensive design information to be presented without overwhelming complexity, as users can selectively view and interact with relevant features.
Solution Approach 2:
Segment indicators serve as intermediaries between the layout and schematic representations. These indicators allow users to access and manipulate schematic features through the layout interface, providing a bridge that simplifies the user experience while maintaining access to all design information.
3Ease of operation
If schematic features are determined through layout interaction, then ease of operation is improved, but processing overhead increases without optimization
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the circuit into net segments and identifying only those affected by user interactions, the system minimizes computational overhead. When users interact with layout elements, only the corresponding schematic features and affected net segments are processed, rather than the entire circuit.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs partial processing by focusing computational efforts only on the necessary portions of the circuit design. Instead of processing all schematic features whenever a layout element is modified, the system selectively processes only the relevant segments, reducing computational resources while maintaining ease of operation.
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AI summary
A system and method for an interactive circuit layout design that provides spatially adaptive overlay indicative of parametric properties. A physical layout of an electrical circuit product is rendered on a display. At least one net of the physical layout is delineated into a plurality of net segments each having at least one physical property parametrically specified in a value therefor. For each net segment, a corresponding segment indicator is selectively rendered on the display, adaptively positioned and spatially mapped to the net segment corresponding thereto as a symbolic surrogate for the corresponding net segment within the physical layout. Selection of a net segment actuates determination of a behavior of the electrical circuit product during an operation consistent with an electrical response of the corresponding net segment. Editing of a net of the physical layout delineates a plurality of updated net segments for the edited net exclusive of other nets.