Patent ID: 7802222
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of automating the application of constraints to one or more design objects in a circuit design created using an electronic design automation tool, wherein the one or more design objects represent physical circuit objects in a circuit being designed using the electronic design automation tool, comprising: providing a template type in a computer system; wherein the template type includes a selectable template type identifier in produced in a computer user interface display of the computer system to identify the template type, wherein template type includes template instance generation code stored in a computer readable storage device of the computer system to run a template instance generation process, wherein template type further includes template instance validation code stored in the computer readable storage to run a template instance validation process; receiving by the computer system, a user selection of the template type identifier; in response to the received user selection of the template type identifier, invoking the template instance generation code to run the template instance generation process on the computer system,