Patent ID: 7110928
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein, said computer readable code being configured to implement a software-implemented shared bus system model for modeling a shared bus system that includes a plurality of devices interconnected via a shared bus, comprising: computer readable code implementing a first device model for partially modeling a first one of said plurality of devices, said first device model including a first modified logical module and a first modified I/O-specific module; computer readable code implementing a sharable module having provisioned therein first shareable data, said first shareable data being shareable by said first device model and another device model of said plurality of device models, said first shareable data representing I/O-specific data associated with said first device model that is also needed by said another device model of said plurality of device models during configuration of said shared bus system model, said first shareable data further representing data expected to be provisioned within said first device model that is configured to model the data content of said first one of said plurality of devices, said first shareable data instead being provisioned in said shareable module.