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Abstract Claims Description Full Text electronic circuit
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Description
REFERENCE TO A COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTING APPENDIX
This application includes a computer program listing
appendix on a single compact disc, the contents of
which are incorporated herein by reference. The compact
disc contains a a particular device.
Many tools exist that allow electronic designs of
integrated circuits (ICs) to be assembled, simulated,
debugged, and translated into hardware. In general,
an IC modeling system allows an IC design to be described
and simulated with a gate-level abstraction. For example,
a designer produces an electronic representation of
the IC design using a modeling system by connecting
and arranging schematic representations of circuit
elements on a computer display, then uses the modeling
system to translate the electronic IC design to a
lower level HDL description, such as at a transistor
or even lower level, for simulation or realization
in hardware. For example, a simulator may accept transistor-level
abstraction to simulate the electronic IC design,
or place and route tools may accept a transistor-level
HDL description of the electronic IC design to produce
a configuration bitstream.
In some instances, an electronic IC design created
within a modeling system must be tailored at a later
stage of an overall design process. For example, a
design developed within a modeling system may be tailored
for incorporation within, or connection to, another
IC design, most if not all of which is external to
the modeling system. A modeling system may only support
unidirectional ports, but incorporating the modeling
system design in a larger design may require bidirectional
ports. A modeling system may be used to process particular
components of a circuit board, the remaining components
being processed outside of the modeling system.
Conventionally, the results produced by a modeling
system are tailored by hand, or by software that parses
HDL. Tailoring by hand is tedious and error-prone,
and HDL parsers are complicated and difficult to write.
Furthermore, some of the information needed to tailor
results (e.g., the date on which the design was produced,
the collection of tools used to make the design, the
names of the clock ports) may not be available in
the HDL representation of the design produced by the
modeling system.
aspects of the invention;
FIG. 4 depicts a flow diagram showing an exemplary
embodiment of a process for generating an interface
description from an electronic IC design produced
by a modeling system in accordance with one or more
aspects of the invention; and
FIG. 5 depicts a flow diagram showing an exemplary
embodiment of a process for producing an interface
to an electronic IC design produced by a modeling
system in accordance with one or more aspects of the
invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Method and apparatus for providing an interface to
an electronic design of an integrated circuit is described.
One or more aspects of the invention are described
with respect to providing an interface between an
integrated circuit (IC) design generated using a modeling
system and another IC design generated outside or
external to the modeling system. Those skilled in
the art, however, will appreciate that the invention
may be used to provide other types of interfaces to
an IC design produced by a modeling system that may
be used to modify the IC design.
FIG. 1 depicts a block diagram showing an exemplary
embodiment of a computer system 100 suitable for implementing
processes and methods in accordance with one or more
aspects of the invention. Computer system 100 includes
a central processing unit (CPU) 102, memory 106, a
variety of support circuits 104, and an I/O interface
108. CPU 102 may be any type of microprocessor known
in the art. Support circuits 104 for CPU 102 include
conventional cache, power supplies, clock circuits,
data registers, I/O interfaces, and the like. I/O
interface 108 may be directly coupled to memory 106
or coupled through CPU 102, and may be coupled to
a conventional keyboard, network, mouse, printer,
and interface circuitry adapted to receive and transmit
data, such as data files and the like. I/O interface
108 may be coupled to a display 112.
Memory 106 may store all or portions of one or more
programs or data to implement the processes and methods
of the invention. Although exemplary embodiments of
the invention are disclosed as being implemented as
a computer executing a software program, those skilled
in the art will appreciate that the invention may
be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination
of hardware and software. Such implementations may
include a number of processors independently executing
various programs and dedicated hardware, such as application
specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
Computer system 100 may be programmed with an operating
system, which may be OS/2, Java Virtual Machine, Linux,
Solaris, Unix, Windows, Windows95, Windows98, Windows
NT, and Windows2000, WindowsME, and WindowsXP, among
other known platforms. At least a portion of an operating
system may be disposed in memory 106. Memory 106 may
include one or more of the following random access
memory, read only memory, magneto-resistive read/write
memory, optical read/write memory, cache memory, magnetic
read/write memory, and the like, as well as signal-bearing
media as described below. Memory 106 may store all
or a portion of modeling system 200 of FIG. 2. 1.
Notably, input section 202, HDL translator 210, interface
generator 218, wrapper building section 214, and HDL
synthesizer 230 may be all or portions of one or more
programs stored within memory 106 and executed by
CPU 102.
FIG. 3 depicts a block diagram showing an exemplary
embodiment of an IC design 300 in accordance with
one or more aspects of the invention. IC design 300
illustratively includes a section processed by modeling
system 200 ("IC design" 204) and a section
processed by IC design processing system 201 ("external
IC design" 226). External IC design 226 includes
sections of IC design 300 that, for one or more reasons,
are not implemented within modeling system 200. For
example, external IC design 226 may include features
that are not supported by modeling system 200.
IC design 204 illustratively includes N levels of
circuit components, or circuit elements, ("components"
3021 through 302N, where N is an integer greater than
zero) . For example, top level components 3021 may
be the highest level circuit components of IC design
204, second level components 3022 may be circuit sub-components
of each of the circuit components in top level components
3021, and so on. In an embodiment, an IC design interface
("IC design wrapper" 228) provides an interface
306 between IC design 204 and external IC design 226.
IC design wrapper 228 includes a new top level 304
that "wraps" IC design 204 and connects
IC design 204 with external IC design 226. IC design
204 is input, such as at a schematic or logic level,
to modeling system 200 using input section 202 and
display 208. Input section 202 produces electronic
design data 206 that includes an electronic produce
IC design wrapper 228. IC design wrapper 228 is output
as HDL. Wrapper building process 222 is described
in more detail below.
Wrapper builder programs 224 are software written
using an interpreted language, such as Python, Perl,
or Java, or a compiled language, such as C or C++,
or other interpreted or compiled languages known in
the art. Wrapper builder programs 224 use information
relating to external IC design 226 to produce an interface
thereto. Notably, wrapper builder programs 224 create
circuit descriptions, such as new top level 304, that
provide an interface between external IC design 226
and IC design 204 by way of IC design wrapper 228.
In an embodiment, wrapper builder programs 224 are
produced using an interface processing framework ("wrapper
building framework" 212). wrapper building framework
212 includes program code for facilitating the importation
of information from interface description 220, the
creation of circuit descriptions representing circuit
components, and the connections of circuit components.
For example, wrapper building framework 212 may include
a collection of Java classes denoted "Netlist",
"Block", "Port", and "Net".
The netlist class may be used to instantiate data
objects that include data structures and mechanisms
for processing interface include, for example, blocks,
ports, and nets corresponding to both top level components
3021 and second level components 3022, attributes
related to such blocks, ports, and nets, and global
attributes related to IC design 204.
At step 406, selected circuit descriptions of step
404 are associated with data objects that correspond
with wrapper building framework 212. For example,
the selected circuit descriptions of step 404 may
be associated with block, port, or net data objects
described above. At step 408, the data objects of
step 406 are realized as storable data to produce
interface description 220. For example, the data objects
of step 406 may be realized as program code that,
when executed, creates blocks, ports, and nets corresponding
to the selected circuit descriptions of step 404.
In this example, the data objects of step 406 may
be instantiated using the Python netlist class of
wrapper building framework 212. In another example,
the data objects of step 406 may be realized using
Java, and stored in binary form using the well-known
Java serialization mechanism. An ASCII representation
of an exemplary interface is shown in the file "INTRFACE.TXT"
of the computer program listing appendix.
FIG. 5 depicts a flow diagram showing an exemplary
embodiment of a process 222 for producing an interface
to an electronic IC design produced by a modeling
system in
While the foregoing describes exemplary embodiment(s)
in accordance with one or more aspects of the invention,
other and further embodiment(s) in accordance with
the one or more aspects of the invention may be devised
without departing from the scope thereof, which is
determined by the claim(s) that follow and equivalents
thereof. Claim(s) listing steps do not imply any order
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inventions. You can either start with a diagram using
electrical and electronic circuitry or a block diagram.
Using microcontrollers
If your inventions require electronic circuits, sensors,
or microcontrollers, you'll want to short-circuit
your development process by outlining the right circuitry.
This circuitry will become a important part of your
patent application.
To do this, use a book like the Microcontroller Application
Cookbook as a resource "databank" of proven,
fully annotated, micro-controlled electronic circuits.
The Cookbook, comprised of over 110 individual circuits,
doesn’t focus on "projects". Instead, each
stand-alone circuit can be blended with others into
multitude combinations for many diverse applications.
The book contains small, independent circuits designed
for easy connectivity to most any microcontroller.
The BASIC Stamp 2 (a very popular microcontroller)
is used extensively throughout to simplify the demonstration
of circuitry concepts. The "Stamp" provides
a convenient means to show circuit operation for teaching
as well as rapid prototyping requirements.
Prototyping inventions with block diagrams
This can be accomplished fairly easily once you learn
how block diagrams work. Electronic engineers can
the use your diagram to develop the electronic circuitry.
Block diagrams are commonly used in patent application
and are well received by the U.S. Patent Office. Essentially,
it is used to illustrate the interaction of components
used in an invention. Learn about how to prepare and
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