Patent ID: 7761829

Claim:
A computer platform-based method for generating a circuit cell containing repeating constituent circuit cells, comprising: specifying through manipulation of indicia in a graphical user interface, a placement of a circuit cell in a physical circuit medium; said graphical user interface used with a display and responsive to a processor; said indicia corresponding to graphic representation of said circuit cell in said graphical user interface; specifying through manipulation of indicia in said graphical user interface a repetitive placement operation for placing additional circuit cells relative to said placement of said circuit cell to form a graphical circuit cell array specification; generating and displaying on a display a circuit array cell from said graphical circuit cell array specification; said circuit cell, said additional circuit cells and said circuit array cell comprising a hierarchical repetitive circuit structure; instantiating a parameterized circuit cell specification of said circuit cell; specifying parameters of said parameterized circuit cell specification via said graphical user interface; and specifying said relative placement of said circuit cell through manipulation of a graphical representation of said circuit cell as instantiated from said parameterized circuit cell specification; wherein each said parameterized circuit cell specification is separately reconfigurable for each instantiation, one from another; wherein said specifying a placement, and repetitive placement are independent of an external engineering design automation system.