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DESIGN AID APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH DESIGN AID PROGRAM IS STORED, AND INTERACTIVE DESIGN AID APPARATUS

  • US 20080201679A1
  • Filed: 12/20/2007
  • Published: 08/21/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A design aid apparatus for aiding logical design of a circuit a plurality of components of which are represented by symbols, comprising:

  • a terminal information retaining section for retaining terminal information pieces, one for each terminal of each of the plurality of components;

    a tentative symbol determining section for determining a tentative symbol, for each said component, having one or more tentative logical terminals;

    a tentative symbol arranging section for arranging the tentative symbol determined by said tentative symbol determining section; and

    a symbol determining section for determining the tentative symbol to be the symbol representing each said component by, for each said component, allocating each of the terminal information pieces retained by said terminal information retaining section to one of the tentative logical terminals of the tentative symbol arranged by said tentative symbol arranging section.

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