Comprehending a circuit design

A computer-program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable code for aiding in the comprehension of a circuit design, the code when executed by a computer processor causes the processor to perform the method comprising:

• receiving an executable description of the circuit design;
• accessing a data store, the data store including a plurality of recipes for the circuit design, each recipe comprising at least one behavior one or more behaviors associated with the circuit design acquired from waveform annotations added to one or more displayed waveforms of the circuit design, the waveform annotations representing graphical explanations of the behaviors;
• receiving a recipe of the plurality of recipes from the data store;
• generating another waveform of the circuit design from the recipe;
• identifying lines of the executable description that can affect signals of the another waveform;
• displaying the executable description of the circuit design;
• and
• highlighting, in the displayed executable description, the identified lines of the executable description that can affect the signals of the another waveform.

A computer-program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable code for aiding in the comprehension of a circuit design, the code when executed by a computer processor causes the processor to perform the method comprising:

• receiving an executable description of the circuit design;
• accessing a data store, the data store including a plurality of behaviors for the circuit design that are indexed to a plurality of textual descriptions of the behaviors, wherein the textual descriptions are textual comments describing the behaviors;
• displaying the executable description of the circuit design;
• receiving a selection of a line of the executable description of the circuit design;
• identifying a behavior from the plurality of behaviors that can be affected by the selected line of the executable description;
• and
• displaying a textual description from the plurality of textual descriptions that is indexed to the identified behavior.