Patent ID: 7383525

Claim:
A design-review-support apparatus for performing a design review of a circuit board designed by a circuit-design apparatus for carrying out a circuit board design and including a circuit-information-memory unit storing circuit information wherein objects that are component elements of the circuit board are correlated with target object identifiers, said apparatus comprising: a design-review-information-memory unit operable to store design-review information that contains attributes of target design-review objects indicating features of the target design-review object, for each one or more design-review items related to a circuit board design; an attribute-information-output unit operable to output attribute information that indicates the target design-review object attributes toward the circuit-design apparatus; an identifier-receiving unit that is operable to, according to the output of the attribute information, receive target-object identifiers that identify the target design-review objects corresponding to the target design-review object attributes that are indicated by the attribute information, from the circuit-information-memory unit of the circuit-design apparatus; a target-object-display-information-creation unit operable to create target-object-display information that includes the target-object identifiers that were received by the identifier-receiving unit; and a target-object-display-information-output unit operable to output the target-object-display information that was created by the target-object-display-information-creation unit; wherein the circuit information contains the design-review items corresponding to the target design-review object attributes, and the design-review item is one of items for checking whether analog wiring and digital wiring are separated, for checking the wiring from a crystal, and for checking a position of IC on the board.