Patent ID: 7272801

Claim:
A method for use with an electronic device holding a system-level design and simulation environment for designing a device to be fabricated through a manufacturing process, said system-level design and simulation environment interfaced with at least one system-level schematic that includes multiple components and a location holding process data external to said environment, each said component including a component model, said component model being a mathematical description of component behavior, said method comprising providing a process specification tool for retrieving the process data and communicating said process data to said system-level design and simulation environment; integrating said process specification tool with the system level design and simulation environment to programmatically alter the components of said system-level schematic based on changes in said process data, said process data including a process specification and a collection of material properties data; providing with said process specification tool a user interface for a user to enable the user to specify a name of said system-level schematic, a name of a collection of material properties data, and a name of a process specification, said names referencing a storage location holding data for the system-level schematic, a storage location holding the materials properties data and a storage location holding the process specification data respectively; and receiving a user-selection of the name of the system-level schematic, a collection of material properties data and the name of a process specification via said user interface.