Patent ID: 7366998
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating data in a high level modeling system (HLMS) executing on a computing system, comprising: creating an electronic design in a memory arrangement of the computing system, the electronic design including a signal that communicates data from a first block to a second block, wherein the design specifies that the data is communicated from the first block in a first external format and that the data is communicated to the second block in a second external format; wherein the first and second blocks are blocks of the electronic design; generating a simulation model for the electronic design in the memory arrangement of the computing system, wherein the simulation model has a first internal representation of the data in the first block, and a second internal representation of the data in the second block; converting from the first internal representation to the second internal representation without intermediate storage in an intermediate representation in the first and second external formats in response to different first and second internal representations; converting from the first internal representation to the second internal representation without intermediate storage in an intermediate representation in the first and second external formats in response to different first and second external formats; and bypassing conversion between the representations of the data in response to like first and second external formats and like first and second internal representations.