Patent ID: 6516456
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for viewing vectored nets within a circuit design database using a placement tool, the circuit design database including a number of circuit objects, a number of vectored nets and a number of scalar nets, each vectored net having a number of pseudo scalar nets that are each uniquely identified as being associated with the corresponding vectored net, a first portion of the number of circuit objects receive at least one vectored net and a second portion of the number of circuit objects receive at least one scalar net, selected ones of the circuit objects being placed via the placement tool thereby resulting in a number of placed circuit objects, selected ones of the placed circuit objects and the corresponding vectored and scalar nets being displayed by the placement tool on a display device, the method comprising the steps of:a. selecting a number of the placed circuit objects thereby resulting in a number of selected placed circuit objects; b. identifying which of the number of vectored nets are received by the selected placed circuit objects, thereby resulting in a number of identified vectored nets; and c. visually distinguishing the identified vectored nets from the remaining number of vectored and scalar nets on the display device.