Patent ID: 7181715
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for supporting a design engineer who performs a circuit design of a given product, by means of a computer, said method comprising: a setup step of registering in a database information about design specifications, circuit components, design items, the correlations between said design specifications and said circuit components, and correlations between said design items and said design specifications or correlations between said design items and said circuit components, which are required for the circuit design of said given product, while giving definitions to said information on said computer; a design-specification determination step of using said computer to prompt the design engineer to determine content of said design specifications with respect to a specific version of said given product; a circuit-component determination step of extracting circuit components for said specific version from said database in accordance with said design specification-circuit component correlations registered in said setup step, and presenting said extracted circuit components to the design engineer on said computer so as to prompt said design engineer to determine circuit components required for said specific version while performing addition, alteration and/or deletion on circuit components if required; a design-item extraction step of using said computer to extract design items required for said specific version in accordance with said design item-design specification correlations or said design item-circuit component correlations registered in said setup step, and present said extracted design items to the design engineer; and a design-item execution step of using said computer to present to the design engineer specific job content of each of said design items extracted in said design-item extraction step, and navigate and prompt said design engineer to execute said specific job content.