Intellectual property model creating apparatus, intellectual property model creating method, and computer product

摘要

A model managing apparatus manages an intellectual property model formed by using program description to model a function to be realized as hardware. The model managing apparatus includes a data storing unit that stores and manages therein electronic system levels that are components into which the intellectual property model is divided. The components are an application program interface that defines external communications, a register that defines data to be input and output, and a behavior that defines a function or a computation. The data storing unit further stores therein connection data that defines connection relations between the register and the behavior, between behaviors, and between the behavior and the application program interface.