Patent ID: 9697315
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, in an electronic design automation (EDA) tool for designing devices, an input drawing drawn by a user of at least a portion of at least one layer of a semiconductor device using a stylus or pointing device, wherein the user draws the drawing to input the portion of the at least one layer to the EDA tool; comparing, by the EDA tool, the at least one portion of the at least one layer to corresponding portions in corresponding layers of a plurality of previously defined devices having respectively different device designs and stored in a non-transitory machine readable storage medium, and determining which of the plurality of previously defined devices have corresponding portions for which designs thereof match the at least one portion drawn by the user; and displaying, on a display device, each layer of at least one of the plurality of previously defined devices for which a corresponding design of the portion in the corresponding layer matches the at least one portion of the at least one layer of the semiconductor device drawn by the user.