Patent ID: 8201137

Claim:
A method to create an integrated circuit that includes digital components and analog components, wherein the integrated circuit corresponds to an integrated circuit design that is stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and that includes multiple design blocks, the method comprising: displaying on a computer system display, user input to the computer system that specifies parameter information to determine a binding between a first analog circuit design component that may be associated with at least one design block of the integrated circuit design and a digital circuit design component that may be associated with a different design block of the integrated circuit design; saying the user specified parameter information in non-transitory computer readable storage media within a first file that also specifies at least a portion of the first analog circuit design component; wherein the integrated circuit design includes a first design block coupled to a second design block; wherein the second design block is associated with a first digital circuit design component; associating the first analog circuit design component specified in the first file with a first design block of the integrated circuit; wherein the act of associating the first analog circuit design component with the first design block replaces a previous association between the first design block and a second digital circuit design component that was previously associated with the first design block; using parameter information saved in the first file to determine a binding between the first analog circuit design component and the first digital circuit design component; saving the determined binding in non-transitory computer readable storage media.