Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for implementing mixed-signal electronic circuit designs with power data in standardized power formats

Abstract

Some aspects are directed at methods and systems that directly specifies or uses standardized power data in standardized format(s) in various design tasks for implementing mixed-signal electronic designs by using native process(es) or module(s) of standardized power format framework(s) to evaluate legal signals or expressions to generate the first output and evaluation process(es) or module(s) to evaluate illegal signals or expressions to generate the second output for the design tasks, without using wrappers to encapsulate circuit blocks generating illegal signals and hence disrupt the original design hierarchical structures or using translators to translate illegal signals or expressions into corresponding legal signals or expressions for the standardized power format frameworks. The methods or systems evaluate combinations of legal and illegal signals and expressions by forwarding both the first and second outputs to standardized power format frameworks to use their native process(es) or module(s) to evaluate the combinations.