Virtual evaluation for circuits and systems

A method for evaluating an electronic component, the method comprising:

• providing, by a server computing device, a user interface to a user application executing at a user computing device;
• receiving, by the server computing device, an indication of a first signal chain, the first signal chain comprising a signal generator and a first component simulator for modeling the electronic component, the indication of the first signal chain received from the user application and via the user interface;
• accessing, by the server computing device, a configuration data set for the first signal chain, wherein the configuration data set comprises:
• argument data describing a set of arguments for the signal generator and the first component simulator;
• binding data describing a relationship between a first argument of the set of arguments and a model input parameter of a first model for the electronic component, the binding data also describing a relationship between the first argument of the set of arguments and a model input parameter of a second model for the electronic component different than the first model;
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• simulator data describing at least the first model for the electronic component;
• executing an implementation of the signal generator to generate a stimulus signal;
• selecting the first model for evaluation of the electronic component;
• determining a value for the model input parameter of the first model using the argument data and the binding data at least in part by performing a transformation on the argument data, the transformation being based on the relationship between the first argument of the set of arguments and the model input parameter of the first model described by the binding data;
• using the first component simulator, by the server computing device, to evaluate the electronic component, at least in part by executing the first model for the electronic component to generate an electronic component output, the evaluating based at least in part on the stimulus signal and the value for the model input parameter of the first model;
• executing at least one data analyzer to generate first signal chain result data using the electronic component output;
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• providing the first signal chain result data to the user computing device via the user interface.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

• providing a user interface to a user application executing at a user computing device;
• receiving an indication of a first signal chain, the first signal chain comprising a signal generator and a first component simulator for modeling an electronic component, the indication of the first signal chain received from the user application and via the user interface;
• accessing a configuration data set for the first signal chain, wherein the configuration data set comprises:
• argument data describing a set of arguments for the signal generator and the first component simulator;
• binding data describing a relationship between a first argument of the set of arguments and a model input parameter of a first model for the electronic component, the binding data also describing a relationship between the first argument of the set of arguments and a model input parameter of a second model for the electronic component different than the first model;
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• simulator data describing at least the first model for the electronic component;
• executing an implementation of the signal generator to generate a stimulus signal:
• selecting the first model for evaluation of the electronic component;
• determining a value for the model input parameter of the first model using the argument data and the binding data at least in part by performing a transformation on the argument data, the transformation being based on the relationship between the first argument of the set of arguments and the model input parameter of the first model described by the binding data;
• using the first component simulator to evaluate the electronic component at least in part by executing the first model for the electronic component to generate an electronic component output, the evaluating based at least in part on the stimulus signal and the value for the model input parameter of the first model;
• executing at least one data analyzer to generate first signal chain result data using the electronic component output;
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• providing the first signal chain result data to the user computing device via the user interface.