Method and apparatus for electronic design automation

An apparatus for auditing an electronic component design process, the process including a plurality of design steps which call one or more electronic design automation (EDA) tools to complete the design steps, the apparatus comprising:

• a memory storing parsing filters and a plurality of failure indicators, the plurality of stored failure indicators comprising a plurality of non-error triggers associated with later failures;
• an extractor configured to extract, based on the stored parsing filters, a plurality of non-error data types from at least one design file and to produce one or more summary files using the extracted plurality of non-error data types, the at least one design file comprising electronic component design information produced by the one or more EDA tools;
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• a comparator configured to determine whether an audit failure exists in a current design step of the plurality of design steps based on a comparison of the one or more summary files with one or more stored failure indicators.

An apparatus for auditing an electronic component design process, the process including a plurality of design steps which call one or more electronic design automation (EDA) tools to complete the design steps, the apparatus comprising:

• a memory storing parsing filters;
• an extractor configured to extract, based on the stored parsing filters, a plurality of non-error data types from at least one design file and to produce one or more summary files using the extracted plurality of non-error data types, the at least one design file comprising electronic component design information produced by the one or more EDA tools;
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• a comparator configured to determine whether an audit failure exists in a current design step of the plurality of design steps based on a comparison of the one or more summary files with one or more stored failure indicators, the one or more stored failure indicators comprising a plurality of non-error triggers associated with later failures.