Patent ID: 7293250

Claim:
A method of developing a physical layout of an electronic component in a data bus connected logic analog system, the method comprising: (i) providing a data bus connected logic analog system modeled as a software-implemented channel simulation model comprising as electronic components: a bit pattern generator for generating a bit pattern; the electronic component, whose physical layout is to be determined by being modeled as a black box having electrical characteristics, the electronic component being modeled as a lumped model and/or an S-parameter model that is characterized by model parameters, the model parameters being set to initial values; and a bit pattern analyzer for analyzing a bit error rate of the bit pattern, said electronic components being serially connected by a data bus; (ii) sending an input bit pattern generated by the bit pattern generator through the black box to produce an output bit pattern, and analyzing the output bit pattern with the bit pattern analyzer to determine a bit error rate by comparing the output bit pattern with the input bit pattern; (iii) varying the model parameters and repeating step (ii) at least once until the determined bit error rate is below a pre-determined first bit error rate boundary value to determine at least one critical model parameter boundary; and (iv) selecting a software-implemented physical layout of the black box based on the critical model parameter boundary and integrating the software-implemented physical layout of the black box in the logic analog system.