Tools for automatic population of databases

• US 20040216070A1
• Filed: 04/23/2004
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Beach Solutions Ltd. (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Beach Solutions Ltd. (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Smith, Michael A. P.
• Application Number:
  US10/831,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20040216070A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 716/11
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2115/08 Intellectual property [IP] blocks or IP cores
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/30 Circuit design
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/00 Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism healthcare informatics G16H

Abstract

A method for automatically populating a database, comprises, creating an initial database comprising a first dataset; creating a rules database for operating on the first dataset to define new related data; and using the rules database to generate new related data so as to create an expanded database comprising a second dataset derived from the first dataset and the generated new data. The method can be implemented as a software product.

Claims

1. A method for automatically populating a database, comprising:

creating an initial database comprising a first dataset;

creating a rules database for operating on the first dataset to define new related data; and

using the rules database to generate new related data so as to create an expanded database comprising a second dataset derived from the first dataset and the generated new data.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data comprise electronic design data for semiconductor systems.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of creating an initial database comprises entering electronic design data into a relational database.

4. A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the step of creating a rules database comprises creating a database of rules relating initial elements of electronic design for a given system.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the rules specify further design elements required to relate the initial design elements in a completed system.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5, comprising creating an abstract definition of parts of the system and using the abstract definition and the rules to specify the further design elements.

7. A method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the data relate to the interconnections between communication ports in different IP blocks of a system-on-chip electronic design.

8. A method as claimed in claim 2, comprising:

implementing the initial database by configuring an architecture by reading a schema file, and populating the architecture by reading a design database;

generating the rules database architecture from a representation of the design database schema; and

using the rules database to generate object classes, individual objects and object characteristics as new data.

9. A computer software product for creating automatically populated databases, comprising:

an initial database for storing a first dataset;

a rules database for storing rules for operating on the first dataset to define new related data; and

an expander that uses the rules from the rules database to generate new related data and to create an expanded database derived from the first dataset and the generated new related data.

10. A computer software product as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first dataset, rules and expanded dataset all comprise electronic design data for semiconductor systems.

11. A computer software product as claimed in claim 10, wherein the initial database comprises a relational database.

12. A computer software product as claimed in claim 11, wherein the rules database comprises a database of rules relating initial elements of electronic design data for a given system.

13. A computer software product as claimed in claim 12, wherein the rules specify further design elements required to relate the initial design elements in a completed system.

14. A computer software product as claimed in claim 13, which uses an abstract definition of parts of the system together with the rules to specify the further design elements.

15. A computer software product as claimed in claim 10, wherein the data relate to the interconnections between communication ports on different IP blocks of a system on chip electronic design.

16. A computer software product as claimed in claim 9, wherein the initial database comprises an architecture configured by reading a schema file and populated by reading a design database;

and the rules database comprises an architecture generated from a representation of the design database schema.