Patent ID: 8156454
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for producing a circuit design, the system comprising: a circuit design file in a first file format comprising a plurality of nodes representing data in files having respective file formats, including a virtual data node representative of data contained in a native file having a native file format; and a design tool adapted to process the circuit design file by accessing the data in the files through the plurality of nodes, wherein the design tool is adapted to directly access the data contained in the native file through the virtual data node, translate the data contained in the native file from the native file format to the first file format and merge the accessed data into the design file, wherein the design tool comprises a virtual node feature adapted to virtualize data in the virtual data node and to access selected data in the native file format for populating the virtual data node, and wherein the virtual node feature further comprises a schema adapted to use software routines for translating between the native file format and the first file format to translate portions of native file data as needed.