Darryl Masami Okahata

US Patent:

20050278154, Dec 15, 2005

Filed:

Jun 15, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/868226

Inventors:

Henock Abebe - Plano TX, US
Darryl Okahata - Santa Rosa CA, US

International Classification:

G06F017/10

US Classification:

703002000

Abstract:

A method comprises receiving a netlist file in a simulator, parsing the netlist file to provide a parsed internal representation of the netlist within the simulator, flattening the parsed representation to provide a flattened internal representation of components and connection of the components from the netlist, converting the flattened representation of components and connections into a mathematical matrix, solving the matrix, generating output from the simulator of desired data as a result of the solving, and controlling, by a user, simulation operation during at least one of the parsing, flattening, converting and generating. A computer program product comprises computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing a computer to simulate at least one of a circuit, a system, and a network and enable a user to control operation of the simulation during at least one of the parsing, flattening, converting and generating steps of simulation.