1 Scope and object
This International Standard provides the semantics definitions for the following categories
of information related to electronic circuit designs. Each category of design information
is modelled as an EXPRESS schema.
The Core Model consists of 10 schemas. Each of them is presented in this document
as a separate chapter. At the beginning of each chapter, a description of the corresponding
schema is provided.
• The hierarchy_model schema describes the hierarchical information of a cell, i.e. the way a cell may
be divided into other cells.
A circuit may be divided into cells which, in turn, may be further subdivided into
other cells, thus creating a hierarchy. The hierarchy information describes the cells,
the possible cell representations and their instances.
• The design_hierarchy_model schema describes the annotation on an occurrence hierarchy.
The definition of a design requires that specific representations (views) of design
objects in the hierarchy are selected. This unambiguously creates a configured design
hierarchy. This concept is similar to the configuration of a design in VHDL and is
related to view selection mechanisms of other electronics design domain information
models in industry. The design hierarchy identifies top-level design cells and may
provide annotated design-specific data into the elaborated hierarchy.
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