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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2003
James M. Brown, Aptos, CA (US);
Tim Allen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Mike Fairman, Bonny Doon, CA (US);
Jeffrey O. Pritchard, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
James M. Brown, Aptos, CA (US);
Tim Allen, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Mike Fairman, Bonny Doon, CA (US);
Jeffrey O. Pritchard, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for designing a circuit, which includes a module, uses a computer. A user may program or adapt the computer to perform computer-aided design functions. The computer obtains a description of the module from the user. The computer parses the description of the module to identify a port of the module, and to obtain information about the port. The computer presents to the user the information that it has obtained about the port.