A system, method and program product for generating and processing 2D barcodes on construction drawings. One embodiment of the method includes generating a plurality of 2D barcodes related to a construction project. Selecting a canvas that includes a plurality of regions to populate with the 2D barcodes, and populating the canvas with each barcode in a respective region. Outputting a print-ready image of the canvas containing the 2D barcodes. Executing a remote data processing system in response to a user scanning one of the 2D barcodes on the canvas with a mobile device to load a web application to facilitate a construction project task.

The present invention provides a graphical view of this connected network that allows the user to navigate throughout a network. The graph view consists of a series of nodes that correspond to a set of test, testbench, design or coverage items in the simulation. Various nodes in the network are colored or shaped differently to represent either test, class, stimulus, testbench, design or coverage points. The graph may be drawn so that all items that occur at the same time are lined up in the same horizontal or vertical region, to give the user an intuitive view of time going left to right or top to bottom.

Described is a method for drafting and displaying electrical circuits based on libraries containing items or speech codes corresponding to the various types of electrical components, the items are made up of alphanumeric codes through which it is possible to unequivocally identify each single electrical component and the method comprises the steps of viewing on a PC screen a control unit of the electrical circuit in the middle of a work area, viewing on the PC screen further electrical components, connected directly or indirectly to the control unit, around the above-mentioned control unit, grouping the views according to a level structure, where each level represents a component or device and contains a structure of sub-levels, setting and grouping a plurality of components or devices which have to be highlighted with respect to others, through graphic animations on the PC screen.

Computer-implemented systems and methods for dynamic symbols for devices in an electrical schematic include receiving placement of a dynamic symbol in a schematic, wherein the dynamic symbol represents an electrical device in the schematic and is selected from a symbol library; receiving assignment of nets to pins of the dynamic symbol; performing manipulation of the pins based on a logical grouping, wherein the dynamic symbol supports dynamic reconfiguration of the pins via the manipulation while retaining pin information from a base symbol in the symbol library; and visually presenting the dynamic symbol with the manipulated pins.

A method includes assigning a default voltage value to a net in an integrated circuit (IC) schematic, generating a simulation voltage value of the net by performing a circuit simulation on the net using the assigned default voltage value, and modifying the IC schematic to include a voltage value associated with the net. The voltage value associated with the net and included in the modified IC schematic is based on a comparison between the assigned default voltage value and the simulation voltage value of the net.

A method includes generating a schematic of an integrated circuit (IC), the IC having a circuit component. The method also includes searching a database having one or more configurations of the circuit component, each of the one or more configurations of the circuit component having a corresponding estimated resistance capacitance (RC) value and an assigned color scheme based on the estimated RC value. The method further includes displaying the circuit component in the schematic as a symbol representing the circuit component, the symbol representing the circuit component being displayed having the assigned color scheme of a selected circuit component configuration.

Methods and systems provide aspects of electronics layout design including copying of layout element(s) and graphically defining a one-to-one correspondence between two elements. An exemplary method may include defining a cloning constraint for a layout, rendering a user interface (UI) to display at least one of a schematic and form representation of the layout, and receiving a selection of at least one element in the layout. The method may create a movable drag set based on the selection, and responsive to a matching of at least one element of the drag set with another element in the layout, performing a one-to-one correspondence for the matched elements. The matching may be an overlap of at least one element in the drag set with an element in the layout having the same master.

A method, system, and computer program product provide the ability to optimize placement of annotations in a drawing model. A drawing model that has annotations and objects is acquired. An annotation (to be moved) is randomly selected. A new position for the selected annotation is randomly selected. The selected annotation is moved to the new position. A new quality score of a resulting drawing model is computed. The resulting drawing model is accepted or rejected based on the new quality score. The above steps are iterated, wherein over time, a probability of accepting the resulting drawing model based on a worse new quality score decreases. The final resulting drawing model is output (e.g., for display).

Measures of effectiveness (MoEs) of a system, including MoEs derived from physical variables and MoEs derived from non-physical variables, can be calculated using a single model using the same software system and the same set of data. Setting up and performance of trade-off studies may be facilitated. Data needed for simulation, including physical attributes such as inertia and spring rate and non-physical attributes such as cost, weight, and mean time between failures, may be persisted in the same manner. Different topologies may be created from the same model. A physical topology may include information that may be used to generate the governing systems equations based on laws of physics. A conceptual topology may include non-physical information, such as weight and cost information, and information that may be used to generate the governing systems equations based on probabilistic principles.

A planned schematic for an electronic system is hierarchically divided into base-level schematic blocks which may be designed individually. In accordance with a plurality of sets of design requirements, variant overlays are designed for each base-level schematic block, each overlay including variant parameter values which may replace corresponding parameter values of the schematic blocks. The schematic blocks are integrated to generate a system-level schematic, and the variant overlays for a given set of design requirements are merged to generate a system variant overlay. Parameter values of the system variant overlay may then replace corresponding parameter values of the system-level schematic to generate a variant schematic for the given set of design requirements. Using this system and methodology, variant designs may be collaboratively generated by multiple designers each with expertise in particular schematic blocks and/or variant requirements, and may be shared either at the system level or at lower levels.