Patent ID: 6928402
Filing Date: 2005-08-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An input-parameter setup supporting method in a simulation framework including a processing unit prepared to repeatedly execute a simulation to derive, at each execution time, from a value set of input-parameters, a design value of at least one item which indicates adequacy of said value set of input-parameters, said input-parameter setup supporting method comprising the steps of: accumulating individual design values which are results of a plurality of past time executions of the simulation and individual value sets of input-parameters used in the past time executions of the simulation; for each kind of input-parameter, deriving each accumulative value distribution, each reflecting selected value sets of the input-parameters corresponding only to design values which satisfy one or more design conditions, among design values obtained through the past time executions of the simulation, extracting one or more reference values of each input-parameter from each accumulative value distribution; displaying, for each kind of input-parameter, the extracted reference values and the number of extracted reference values; and permitting a user to set a new value of each of the input-parameters for a next time execution of the simulation within a value range associated to displayed reference values of corresponding input-parameters.