Patent Document ID: 8229723
Application ID: 11952416
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An electronic design automation (EDA) modeling tool, comprising: a definition module to define a first full set of possible software instrumentation test points for a first simulation of an electronic system being modeled with a first executable behavioral model coded at a first level of abstraction and to define a second full set of possible software instrumentation test points for a second simulation of the electronic system being modeled with a second executable behavioral model coded at a second level of abstraction, where the second full set of possible software instrumentation tests is configured to capture similar measurement quantities as the first full set of possible software instrumentation tests; a population module to populate instances of a first subset of possible software instrumentation test points in the first executable behavioral model, as well as populate instances of a second subset of possible software instrumentation test points in the second executable behavioral model; and a performance instrumentation platform to then create a first set of software objects associated with one or more of the first subset of possible software instrumentation test points that are actually selected by a user to be enabled for a run of the first simulation, wherein the performance instrumentation platform to then also create a second set of software objects associated with one or more of the second subset of possible software instrumentation test points that are selected by the user to be enabled for a run of the second simulation wherein the modules making up the EDA modeling tool are implemented in logic blocks of electronic hardware, software coding, and any combination of the two, where portions implemented in software coding are stored in an executable format by a processor on a non-transitory machine-readable medium.