Patent ID: 7143023

Claim:
A method of automatically creating computer simulations or analyses of signal transfers of a circuit or system design, comprising: providing a description of a physical design of a circuit or system having physical components and in which at least one of the physical components may transfer a signal to at least one physical component, wherein the physical design description includes an identification of the physical components and information descriptive of physical inter-connectivity among the physical components; providing a signal transfer description for at least one signal transfer, the signal transfer description including a set of source nodes and a set of receiver nodes, wherein the set of source nodes provide the signal to be transferred and the receiver nodes receive the signal transferred from the corresponding set of source nodes, and wherein each node is described by information associated with physical components; identifying a signal transfer description as corresponding to at least a portion of the physical inter-connectivity information; using information in the corresponding signal transfer description to construct computer simulations or analyses of the corresponding physical inter-connectivity.