Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080266246 | TRAVERSING GRAPHICAL LAYERS USING A SCROLLING MECHANISM IN A PHYSICAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT - Z-axis display navigation in the design automation process of physical design, development and manufacturing of integrated circuits includes pre-selecting, using a computer mouse connected to a computer workstation processor, viewable graphical layout layers desired by a design layout debugging operator to view during an integrated circuit (IC) design debugging process. After selecting the desired viewable graphic layout layers, the layout operator uses the mouse to traverse the pre-selected viewable graphical layout layers displayed, by changing the input scrolling pattern of the mouse to scroll forward, backward, diagonally and from side to side in a plurality of directions, where a curser on the layout screen will correspondingly move in the plurality of directions in the pre-selected viewable graphical layout layers on the layout screen corresponding to the movement of the mouse by the operator. | 10-30-2008 |
20080320429 | CIRCUIT LAYOUT TOOL DIMMING FEATURE - A computer program product stored on machine readable media including machine executable instructions for display a layout of a circuit design, includes instructions for: receiving designation of at least one design segment from a user; receiving designation of a degree of intensity for at least one of highlighting and dimming the design segments and on a display screen, highlighting the designated design segments and dimming remaining segments on the display. A system is also provided. | 12-25-2008 |
20090024975 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR TRAVERSING DESIGN HIERARCHY USING A SCROLL MECHANISM - A method and an apparatus are disclosed for the display of hierarchical navigation in the automated design of integrated circuits under test. A user, using a computer, assigns a head pointer assignment and a tail pointer assignment, which form a definition of a viewable scope of at least one hierarchical level of design from a plurality of hierarchical levels of design. These head pointer and tail pointer assignments are stored in a repository of the computer to set the definition of the viewable scope of the at least one hierarchical level of design. After being set, the viewable scope of the at least one hierarchical level of design is displayed on a computer display device, where the viewable scope of the at least one hierarchical level of design can be traversed by moving a scrolling mechanism up and down in the viewable scope of the at least one hierarchical level of design. | 01-22-2009 |
20090064075 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR SCHEMATIC EDITOR MULIT-WINDOW ENHANCEMENT OF HIERARCHICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN - A method and apparatus for displaying hierarchical navigation and editing a plurality of hierarchical levels of design of an integrated circuit includes opening a main editor screen, displaying a viewable scope of hierarchical levels of design in the main editor screen and using a computer to assign a side window adjacent to the main editor screen. The side-window displays information about schematics previously viewed including thumbnail views of most recently viewed levels of the plurality of hierarchical levels of design. Using the computer input device, the user scrolls through the main editor screen into a hierarchical level of design. The side window is populated with a schematic that was last viewed and a thumbnail view of the hierarchical level of design is surrounded by a highlighted border, enabling the user to view schematic elements underneath the hierarchical level of design and to see the thumbnail view of the top-level schematic. | 03-05-2009 |
20090064076 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PRODUCTS FOR TRAVERSING SCHEMATIC HIERARCHY USING A SCROLLING MECHANISM - A method and a system for displaying hierarchical navigating, debugging and editing of selected hierarchical levels of design of a plurality of hierarchical levels of design in graphical hierarchical design applications, by assigning, from a schematic of the integrated circuit, a viewable scope of a block element desired for traversing. Opening the viewable scope of the block element, by using a mouse scrolling device to cause a cursor to highlight and roll in a downward direction over the highlighted block element, while holding down a predefined keyboard key. Then closing the viewable scope of the block element, by causing the cursor to be positioned in an empty area of the schematic, while holding down an other predefined keyboard key and rolling the mouse scrolling device in an upward direction. | 03-05-2009 |
20090210844 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS INVOLVING DESIGNING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - A system comprising, a processor operative to, receive a first input designating a first net segment profile on a first level in an integrated circuit for shielding, determine whether the designated first net segment profile is in electrical communication with other net segment profiles, determine whether the net segment profiles are located in a different level than the first net segment profile, define a first shielding profile corresponding to the net segment profiles on the first level, define a second shielding profile corresponding to the net segment profiles on the second level, determine and removing segments of the first shielding profile and the second shielding profile contact features of the integrated circuit, determine and removing segments of the first shielding profile and the second shielding profile are non-continuous, define vias at the intersections of first shielding profile and the second shielding profile, and a processor operative to display the output. | 08-20-2009 |
20090327988 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LAYOUT DEVICE MATCHING DRIVEN BY A SCHEMATIC EDITOR - Systems and computer program products for layout device matching driven by a schematic editor. Exemplary embodiments include identifying a master device in a circuit layout having at least transistors, the master device having property values including at least one of topology, name and device-type, identifying a cloned device linked to the master device, automatically propagating the property values to the cloned device, making changes to a design layout of the master device, including a change to the properties, and automatically propagating the changes to the design layout and the change to the properties of the master device to the cloned device. | 12-31-2009 |
20100287515 | INTERACTIVE CHECKER IN A LAYOUT EDITOR - Methods, articles of manufacture and apparatus for testing design layouts. Design layout software may be configured to display a layout diagram in a first area of a graphical user interface (GUI) screen. Parameters for testing the layout may be entered in a second area of the GUI screen. Upon receiving one or more test parameters, the layout software may be configured to identify portions of the layout that do not conform to design rules based on the test parameters. | 11-11-2010 |