Patent ID: 7110935
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for creating an electronic circuit design, comprising: providing a plurality of user-selectable system-level design objects, each system-level design object defined by a system-level function; providing a plurality of hardware-level design objects, each hardware-level design object configured to generate a hardware definition of a hardware-level function, wherein one or more hardware-level design objects are combinable to implement each system-level design object; instantiating a system-level design in a system-level design file, the system-level design including user-selected ones of the system-level design objects; simulating behavior of the system-level design consistent with the system-level functions and behavior of a hardware definition from the hardware-level design objects that implement the user-selected ones of the system-level design objects; wherein each system-level design object is parameterizable and has associated therewith at least one input data port or at least one output data port, and each input and output data port has an associated, user-specified sample rate; in response to a signal to generate a hardware-level design from the system-level design file,