Patent ID: 7631284

Claim:
A method for displaying a graphical user aid for migrating a circuit design from a source device into a plurality of different target device types using a computer capable of: determining, by using a computer, circuit resource usage of the circuit design implemented in the source device; determining circuit resource availability for at least two different target device types; determining that at least one circuit resource used by the circuit design in the source device is unavailable in the at least two different target device types; mapping the at least one unavailable circuit resource into a different circuit resource that is available in each of the at least two target device types; estimating circuit resource usage of the circuit design implemented in the source device migrated into each of the at least two target device types based at least in part on the circuit resource mapping, wherein the estimating is performed based on the resource usage of the source device and circuit resource availability of the at least two different target device types; and displaying the graphical user aid on a computer display, wherein the graphical user aid displays the estimated circuit resource usage of the circuit design implemented in all of the at least two different target device types.