Assistance programs, design assistance methods, and information processing apparatuses

A design assistance method to be executed by a computer including a storage unit that stores first correspondence relationship information in which feature information related to a specification of a circuit and a value to be set to a parameter for use to cause an integrated circuit to configure the circuit are associated with each other, wherein the integrated circuit configures an arbitrary circuit therein based on the parameter, and second correspondence relationship information in which each of multiple values settable to the parameter and an improvement level of a performance of the circuit configured by the integrated circuit with the value set to the parameter are associated with each other, the method causing the computer to execute processings comprising:

• receiving feature information related to a specification of a target circuit to be designed;
• if there is no value associated with the received feature information in reference to the first correspondence relationship information, and if the performance of the target circuit does not satisfy a predetermined constraint in a case where the integrated circuit configures the target circuit with any of the multiple values set to the parameter, selecting, in reference to the second correspondence relationship information, a value achieving the improvement level of the performance of the target circuit being higher than a threshold from the multiple values;
• determining whether the performance of the target circuit configured by the integrated circuit with the selected value set to the parameter satisfies the predetermined constraint;
• and
• if it is determined that the performance of the target circuit configured by the integrated circuit with the selected value set to the parameter satisfies the predetermined constraint, storing the received feature information and the selected value into the first correspondence relationship information in association with each other.

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a memory that stores first correspondence relationship information in which feature information related to a specification of a circuit and a value to be set to a parameter for use to cause an integrated circuit to configure the circuit are associated with each other, wherein the integrated circuit configures an arbitrary circuit therein based on the parameter, and second correspondence relationship information in which each of multiple values settable to the parameter and an improvement level of a performance of the circuit configured by the integrated circuit with the value set to the parameter are associated with each other;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a process, the process comprising;
• receiving feature information related to a specification of a target circuit to be designed;
• if there is no value associated with the received feature information in reference to the first correspondence relationship information, and if the performance of the target circuit does not satisfy a predetermined constraint in a case where the integrated circuit configures the target circuit with any of the multiple values set to the parameter, selecting, in reference to the second correspondence relationship information, a value achieving the improvement level of the performance of the target circuit being higher than a threshold from the multiple values;
• determining whether the performance of the target circuit configured by the integrated circuit with the selected value set to the parameter satisfies the predetermined constraint;
• and
• if it is determined that the performance of the target circuit configured by the integrated circuit with the selected value set to the parameter satisfies the predetermined constraint, storing the received feature information and the selected value into the first correspondence relationship information in association with each other.