Patent ID: 8869093

Claim:
A method to provide a graphical user interface, the method comprising: capturing protocol related data generated by a simulation application to design an integrated circuit associated with an interface protocol; grouping the protocol-related data according to an abstraction level of the interface protocol; and displaying one or more first protocol objects and one or more second protocol objects in a first window on a display device based on the grouping, wherein the first protocol objects represent events associated with a first hierarchical layer of the interface protocol and the one or more second protocol objects represent events associated with a second hierarchical layer of the interface protocol, wherein the one or more first protocol objects and one or more second protocol objects are aligned on the display device along a first axis according to the abstraction level of the interface protocol, and wherein the one or more first protocol objects and the one or more second protocol objects are aligned on the display device along a second axis correlated to a simulation time.