Patent ID: 8788997
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of depicting and designing circuitry, the method comprising: receiving a design including a plurality of circuit nodes and a plurality of paths interconnecting the circuit nodes; enabling a user to designate selected circuit nodes of the plurality as cut nodes; assessing that a node of the circuit nodes is a cut node; determining how many input ports there are for the cut node; for each input port of the cut node determining which of the plurality of circuit nodes serves as a source node for the input port; for a node determined to be a source node, determining that the source node has not been designated a cut node; determining the cut node is associated with a cloud; inserting, by a processor, the source node into the cloud; after a node other than a cut node is inserted into a cloud, checking every input of the inserted node; for each input of the inserted node determining which of the plurality of circuit nodes serves as a source node for the inserted node; and for each of the circuit nodes determined to serve as a source node for the inserted node, assessing that the source node to the inserted node is other than a cut node, and inserting the node into the cloud.