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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2005
Jeffrey Orion Pritchard, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Joel Seely, Fremont, CA (US);
Nathan Knight, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Eric Joseph Lechner, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Jeffrey Orion Pritchard, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Joel Seely, Fremont, CA (US);
Nathan Knight, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Eric Joseph Lechner, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for automating pin assignments through an electronic design automation (EDA) development tool is provided. In the method, components for a chip design are selected and a board in which the chip design is to be implemented is identified. A port of one of the selected components is associated with a pin of the board through a component-based file. Thus, the component-based file maps the port to the pin. By utilizing a component based file, the mapping of the port to the pin is maintained during propagation of the chip design from a component level to a system level, even if the port name should change. A system for generating a chip design is also provided.