US 11,113,439 B2 · Trigger-action-circuits: leveraging generative design to enable novices to design and build circuitry

Abstract

A method, system, and apparatus provide the ability to design a circuit. A behavior of the circuit is authored by dragging nodes from side panels and connecting them in an authoring canvas. Multiple circuit designs that satisfy the behavior are generated. A data grid table is generated and displays the circuit designs with each row representing a design, and the table is sortable based on columns that represent computed metrics. Upon selection of a design in the table, a computer generated circuit diagram is rendered. Interactive assembly instructions are generated and displayed. The interactive assembly instructions provide a text-based step-by-step guide to wire the circuit. Further, upon selection of an assembly instruction step, a corresponding element in the computer generated circuit diagram is highlighted.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for designing a circuit, comprising:

(a) authoring a behavior of the circuit using a visual programming language;
(b) computing two or more circuit designs, wherein each of the two or more circuit designs satisfies the behavior;
(c) generating and displaying a data grid table, for the two or more circuit designs, wherein:
(1) each row of the data grid table represents one of the two or more circuit designs;
and
(2) the data grid table is sortable;
and
(d) upon selecting one of the two or more circuit designs in the data grid table, rendering a computer generated circuit diagram of the selected circuit design in an interactive circuit diagram area.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/739,935Filed 10 Jan 2020 · continuation

Priority

9 Oct 2017

Published

US 2020/0151378 A114 May 2020

Granted

7 Sep 2021

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

G06F 30/398
Circuit design at the physical level: design verification or optimisation, e.g. using design rule check [DRC], layout versus schematics [LVS] or…
G06F 30/30
Computer-aided design [CAD]: circuit design
G06F 30/31
Circuit design: design entry, e.g. editors specifically adapted for circuit design
G06F 30/327
Circuit design at the digital level: logic synthesis; Behaviour synthesis, e.g. mapping logic, HDL to netlist, high-level language to RTL or netlist

Family

Application62/569,840Us provisional application · filed 9 Oct 2017

Application16/155,116Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Oct 2018

US 2020/0151378 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 May 2020

US 10,558,776 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2019/0108294 A1Published application

US 11,113,439 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Trigger-action-circuits: leveraging generative design to enable novices to design and build circuitry

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Abstract

Claims20