Patent ID: 8352906

Claim:
A computer implemented method for implementing external domain independent modeling framework in a system design, comprising: using at least one processor to perform a process, the process comprising: importing a first external model of an electronic circuit design in a first external format into an internal common modeling framework, in which the action of importing the first external model further comprises preserving some or all interpretation of the first external model, and the computer implemented method requires no compliance on an external tool on which the first external model is constructed; and determining a first internal common representation for the first external model within the internal common modeling framework, in which the act of determining the first internal common representation comprises: representing the first external model in an intermediate representation of the electronic circuit design; and compiling the intermediate representation into the first internal common representation based at least in part upon a result of synchronizing the intermediate representation within the internal common modeling framework, wherein the first internal common representation represents the first external model in a common manner.