| 摘要 |
The invention relates to a method and device providing integrated circuit design assistance. Independently of a design flow, the inventive method comprises the following steps, namely: a step (405) in which an information abstraction layer (320) is put in place, using a set of classes (105 to 125) in order to create objects having a defined structure, said abstraction layer being independent of the design flow (305) of all or part of the integrated circuits; a step (445) in which specific data representative of the design flow are captured in order to assign values to the fields of at least part of the objects; and a step (450) in which the values of the objects are interpreted by design quality measurement and/or control applications. During the abstraction layer introduction step in certain embodiments of the invention, the abstraction layer has a dynamic structure in order to store the information required to measure and control the quality of reusable integrated circuit blocks. In other embodiments of the invention, the abstraction layer is based on two classes of objects with dynamic field lists, the first class enabling the creation of “category” objects which define formats and characteristics of the “information” objects from the second class.
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