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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2001
John Stephen Walther, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ismed D. S. Hartanto, Castro Valley, CA (US);
John Stephen Walther, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ismed D. S. Hartanto, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for editing netlists described in a hardware description language (HDL). In one embodiment, a netlist is provided and a changes module is provided. The changes module contains a set of changes associated with the netlist. A tool, such as a netlist compiler, then edits the netlist using the changes described in the changes module. The changes module may be used on subsequent, or different, versions of the netlist where the netlist element changed by the changes module are the same. In this manner, repeated manual editing of a netlist, may be significantly reduced.