Unified Circuit Design Interface with Electrical Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic circuit design tools require designers to frequently switch between different user interfaces to obtain and verify information, leading to inefficiencies in the design process due to the lack of in situ, customizable information with electrical awareness.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that provide customizable information in electronic circuit design by displaying physical design elements and responses within a single user interface, allowing for real-time manipulation and verification of electrical characteristics and parasitics, enabling designers to work within a unified interface with integrated tools for schematic and physical domain design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If designers use conventional electronic circuit design tools with separate user interfaces for different verification tasks, then each tool can perform its specialized function, but designers must frequently switch between interfaces which reduces design efficiency and increases complexity of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate verification tools (layout editor, physical verification tool, schematic tool) into a single integrated user interface. This allows designers to access and manipulate physical design data, view verification results, and perform edits without switching between different applications, directly resolving the contradiction by improving productivity while maintaining ease of operation through unified access
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated user interface provides multi-functional capabilities by enabling designers to perform layout editing, physical verification, schematic verification, and parameter viewing within a single tool. This universal interface eliminates the need to switch between specialized tools, thereby improving design efficiency without increasing operational complexity
2Measurement precision
If designers access detailed physical design information and verification results in real-time during manipulation, then design accuracy and electrical awareness are improved, but the system complexity and computational requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary computation of physical design data, parasitic information, and verification results before the designer needs them. By pre-processing and caching this information, the system can provide real-time access to detailed electrical characteristics and verification status without imposing heavy computational complexity during interactive manipulation, thus improving measurement precision while managing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated interface provides continuous feedback by automatically updating verification results and electrical parameter information as the designer manipulates the physical design. This real-time feedback mechanism improves design verification accuracy by keeping the designer informed of electrical awareness implications, while the automated nature of the feedback reduces the perceived system complexity for the user
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a method, system, and computer program product for providing customizable information in designing electronic circuits with electrical awareness. The method or the system displays a portion of a physical design of an electronic circuit in a first display area. The method or the system receives or identifies a user's or a system's manipulation of the portion of the physical design of the electronic circuit. The method or the system then determines and displays an in situ response to the manipulation in the first display area. The method or the system may further display, in the first display area or in another display area, result(s) relating to the physical data of a component, electrical parasitic(s) associated with the physical data, electrical characteristic(s) associated with the physical data or the electrical characteristic(s), or other element(s) of the physical design that is impacted by the manipulation.