Patent ID: 6068663
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A design support system for generating constituent data of a circuit to be designed by circuit simulation in circuit designing, comprising:data reading means for reading circuit data for simulation of a circuit to be designed and for analyzing and structuring the circuit data to output structured circuit data;structured circuit data storing means for storing said structured circuit data outout from aid data reading means; andcircuit data editing means for extracting and editing partial data to be edited from said structured circuit data stored in said structured circuit data storing means and for merging edited partial data into said structured circuit data stored in said structured circuit data storing means, whereinsaid data reading means comprises:words and phrases/syntax analyzing means for reading said circuit data for simulation and analyzing words and phrases and syntaxes of the circuit data to store analysis results in a form of a hierarchical structure in said structured circuit data storing means, andhierarchical link means for analyzing the hierarchical structure of the circuit data stored in said structured circuit data storing means and based on a result of the analysis, adding a hierarchical relationship link pointer indicative of said hierarchical structure of each said edited partial data to the circuit data stored in said structured circuit data storing means and linking the link pointers.