Logical Design Flow with Structural Compatibility Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Complex physical systems, such as modern electrical circuits, require advanced design tools to manage multidimensional component properties across varying operational domains, necessitating seamless interaction between designers and design systems to ensure accurate energy transfer and system behavior within specified tolerances.

Innovation Solution

A data processing system that enables user interaction to control display data presentation through logical and physical topological contexts, utilizing logical front-end processes to design and verify physical systems, ensuring compliance with design rules and storing compliant structural data for fabrication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If designers manually verify structural compatibility of each component across multiple operational domains, then design accuracy is improved, but design time and complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign accuracyVSAvoiddesign time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary automated verification of structural compatibility across all operational domains before final design completion. Design rules are established upfront and automatically checked against component configurations, eliminating the need for manual verification at each stage while maintaining high design accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

An automated verification system acts as an intermediary between design components and operational domain requirements. This intermediary automatically checks structural compatibility by comparing component configurations against predefined design rules across multiple operational domains, reducing design time while preserving accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If complete structural data is verified across all operational domains, then system reliability is improved, but computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem reliabilityVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The verification process is segmented into discrete design rules for each operational domain (e.g., DC domain rules, AC domain rules). Each rule set independently verifies specific structural compatibility aspects, making the overall complex verification manageable through modular, domain-specific rule applications rather than monolithic computation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Manufacturing precision

If designers work with detailed multidimensional component data, then design precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign precisionVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs structural compatibility verification without requiring manual intervention from designers. The automated process independently checks component configurations against design rules across operational domains, maintaining high design precision while eliminating the operational burden of manual verification, thus improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS8732651B1Logical design flow with structural compatability verification
Publication Date: 2014.05.20 CADENCE DESIGN SYST INC
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AI summary

A design system provides data structures to store parameters of physical structures that can be viewed and modified in a front-end process through a logical design interface. In this way, system behavior defined by component structure can be evaluated and modified through a schematic representation of the data, regardless of a state of data representing the physical layout of interconnected physical structures. In electric circuit applications, for example, high frequency circuits can be incrementally designed and evaluated through structural parameters defined in a schematic diagram data abstraction without modifying and evaluating a layout data abstraction of the circuit directly.