Real-time display of electronic device design changes between schematic and/or physical representation and simplified physical representation of design

A computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable code embodied therein, executable by a computing device, and comprising one or more of:
• first computer-readable code to receive from a logical design computer program a first change to a design of an electronic device made on a schematic of the electronic device within a logical window displayed by the logical design computer program and showing components of the electronic device in logical form, to automatically and in real-time display the first change within a simplified window of a simplified view of a circuit board representation of the electronic device, and to send to the logical design computer program a second change to the design of the electronic device made on the simplified view of the circuit board representation within the simplified window;
• and
• second computer-readable code to receive from a physical design computer program a third change to the design of the electronic device made on the circuit board representation within a physical window displayed by the physical design computer program and showing the components of the electronic device in physical form, to automatically and in real-time display the third change within the simplified window of the simplified view of the circuit board representation, and to send to the physical design computer program the second change to the design of the electronic device made on the simplified view of the circuit board representation within the simplified window,
• wherein the second change made to the design within the simplified window is a virtual change that is not in actuality automatically made to the circuit board representation of the electronic device, but rather is just virtually depicted in the simplified window, the circuit board representation still having to be correspondingly updated in accordance with the second change using the physical design computer program.

A method comprising:

• receiving a first change made to a design of an electronic device on a schematic of the electronic device within a logical window displayed by a logical design component and showing components of the electronic device in logical form, by a computing device;
• automatically and in real-time displaying the first change within a simplified window of a simplified view of a circuit board representation of the electronic device, by the computing device;
• and
• sending to the logical design component a second change to the design of the electronic device made on the simplified view of the circuit board representation within the simplified window, by the computing device,
• wherein the second change made to the design within the simplified window is a virtual change that is not in actuality automatically made to the circuit board representation of the electronic device, but rather is just virtually depicted in the simplified window, the circuit board representation still having to be correspondingly updated in accordance with the second change using a physical design computer component.