Patent ID: 7370297
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer program product, in a computer readable medium, including computer program instructions thereon which when executed by a computer to display information on a circuit information described according to each design level in circuit design, the computer program instructions implementing a method comprising: acquiring behavior level description information in which circuit information is described by description of a behavior level; acquiring lower level description information in which circuit information on a same circuit as the behavior level description information is described in a design level lower than the behavior level; acquiring correspondence information for making correspondence between a part of the behavior level description information and a part of the lower level description information; and displaying the correspondence between the part of the behavior level description information and the part of the lower level description information based on the correspondence information, wherein the displaying of the correspondence comprises: receiving a user selection of a part of the lower level description information: searching the correspondence information based on the selected part and determining a part of the behavior level description information corresponding to the selected part; and highlighting the determined part.