Patent ID: 7380233

Claim:
A method of developing a first integrated circuit (IC) design using a computer, the first IC desian of an IC, said method comprising: providing the computer with a model of the first IC design; providing, via the computer, a plurality of IC device modules each representing a common solid-state electrical-circuit device, said plurality of IC device modules having differing predetermined device property values each being an operating value of the common solid-state electrical-circuit device; building the model using an IC design library element that includes at least one module pod that corresponds to a portion of said model, said at least one module port configured to receive, in seriatim, ones of said plurality of IC device modules; selecting a first IC device module of said plurality of IC device modules based on the predetermined device property value of said first IC device module; and populating said at least one module port with said first IC device module so as to produce a first iteration of said model; determine a manufactured property value.