Patent ID: 7194705
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In an integrated circuit modeling system, a method of simulating an integrated circuit design using one or more circuit description language representations of circuitry, the method comprising: translating a circuit description language representation of the one or more circuit description language representations of circuitry into a program language circuit description, the circuit description language representation being in a hardware description language; executing a first part of a simulation in a high-level modeling system (“HLMS”) portion of the integrated circuit modeling system, the first part of the simulation being executed using one or more first HLMS simulation programs to produce first simulation results, the one or more first HLMS simulation programs being in program language; obtaining the first simulation results for input data from the first part of the simulation; executing a second part of the simulation with the input data as parametric input to produce output data as second simulation results, the second part of the simulation including providing the input data to the program language circuit description for the second part of the simulation to produce the second simulation results; and providing the second simulation results as input to one or more second HLMS simulation programs for further simulation in the HLMS portion of the integrated circuit modeling system, the one or more second HLMS simulation programs being in program language.