Patent ID: 8645900

Claim:
A method of at least contributing to a selection of a type and form of a circuit implementation in at least one layer for a given integration task in one of: an integrated circuit or many thereof combined in a wafer composite; a module on an area-like carrier substrate; and a compact module; the method comprising the steps of: (1) a plurality of electric or electronic components are to be spatially placed and electrically connected with each other; (2) a plurality of completed solutions for the given integration task is stored in a database, and each of the completed solutions comprises a set of properties, and each set includes at least the following properties for the given integration task: a technology of integration; a package or installation size; a number of physical layers for conductive paths or conductors in a vertical direction; and a wire or conductor path length; (3) using said completed solutions stored in the data base to define a destination space, and selecting a solution therefrom by at least two operating elements in a display device wherein all solutions of the destination space are concurrently displayed by the display device, with at least some properties in the first of said two operating elements and at least with respect to two properties in the second of said two operating elements, and wherein a graphic-interactive function controls the representation of the completed solution in the destination space to restrict available completed solutions to only few represented and highlighted completed solutions; (4) said selected solution determines type and form of the circuit implementation as a result of the given integration task, and aggregates said plurality of electric and electronic components in one of a plurality of integration technologies; wherein in a second portion of the display device as the second operating element at least two properties from the set of properties are represented versus each other, thereby allowing a comparison in the second portion of two property values of all completed solutions stored in the database.