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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
George W. Nation, Rochester, MN (US);
Gary Lippert, Kasson, MN (US);
Gary S. Delp, Rochester, MN (US);
George W. Nation, Rochester, MN (US);
Gary Lippert, Kasson, MN (US);
Gary S. Delp, Rochester, MN (US);
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for generalizing design attributes in a design capture environment comprising the steps of (A) defining a procedure for adding one or more auxiliary configurators to a tool or suite of tools, (B) linking the auxiliary configurators to predetermined object points in an abstracted design and (C) defining a procedure for the tool or suite of tools to reference the one or more auxiliary configurators, wherein the auxiliary configurators are neither referenced by a core nor built into the tool or suite of tools.