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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2006
Charles L. Alley, Durham, NC (US);
Robert B. Likovich, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph D. Mendenhall, Cary, NC (US);
Chad E. Winemiller, Cary, NC (US);
Charles L. Alley, Durham, NC (US);
Robert B. Likovich, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Joseph D. Mendenhall, Cary, NC (US);
Chad E. Winemiller, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and readable media for using relative positioning of items or components in a structure with dynamic ranges, such as an elastic I/O bus design for an Integrated Circuit (IC), are disclosed. Embodiments may include a user-defined type module having user-defined types representing relative instance positions within a structure. Embodiments may also include a translation helper module to receive information associated with a hierarchy and to return location information associated with the hierarchy and a translation module to translate between a specific location and a relative position of the instance based on one or more user-defined types and location information returned from the translation helper module to generate a list of translated results. Further embodiments of the translation module may include a relative position determiner to translate specific locations to relative positions and may also include a specific location determiner to translate relative positions to specific locations.