Patent ID: 7076415

Claim:
A system for synthesizing a circuit using mixed signal synthesis, comprising: a collection of design tools, each of said design tools configured to produce at least one function of an overall electronic circuit design, said design tools including a simulator configured to simulate performance of the circuit being synthesized; an optimizer coupled to said simulator and configured to find optimized values for design parameters and evaluate simulation results of the circuit to be synthesized; a test bench mechanism configured to set up test benches configured to test the circuit being synthesized under predetermined conditions; and a parameter passing mechanism configured to pass the optimized design parameters to said test bench mechanism and said simulator; a plurality of synthesis plans associated with a type of circuit component, wherein each of the synthesis plans contains situation-specific instructions that determine how the design tools should be applied to synthesize that circuit component for that particular design situation; and wherein one of said plurality of synthesis plans can be selected by a user and executed by the system to control the application of said design tools to synthesize a circuit for a desired design situation.