×

Tool and method for refining a circuit including parametric analog elements

  • US 9,858,376 B2
  • Filed: 09/25/2015
  • Issued: 01/02/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A method of designing and building a circuit using a circuit design tool embodied in a computer readable medium on a server, the method comprising:

  • receiving in the circuit design tool specified requirements for the circuit through a client computer coupled to the server, the specified requirements including physical properties to be measured by the circuit;

    automatically modeling the circuit using the circuit design tool based on the specified requirements of the circuit and resources available on an integrated circuit (IC); and

    building the circuit based on the modeled circuit and including the IC,wherein the resources available on the IC include analog and digital circuit elements for which operating parameters can be set, and wherein building the circuit comprises coupling the IC to the circuit design tool and setting parameters of at least one of the analog and digital circuit elements,wherein the resources available on the IC further include a scheduler, and a number of parametric sensing signal chains each sharing a number of the analog and digital circuit elements, and building the circuit comprises downloading data to operate the scheduler to allocate the analog and digital circuit elements to the parametric sensing signal chains based on the specified requirements.

View all claims
  • 5 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×