公开(公告)号：WO2001093001A3

公开(公告)日：2001-12-06

申请号：PCT/US2001/017232

申请日：2001-05-25

Applicant: APTIX CORPORATION

Inventor： MOHSEN, Amr, M. ,  BICZEK, Robert ,  HUANG, Thomas, B. ,  ROSQVIST, Leif ,  SIU, Francis ,  UNDERSETH, Mitchell

IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract: A method and system are provided for prototyping a circuit design using a secure server connected to a network. A customer's client computer transfers an encrypted circuit design to a secure server. An consulting engineer's client computer then connects to the server, accesses the design, and prototypes the design. The prototype is sent to the customer, either as programming files which the customer uses to program a hardware prototype, as a programmed hardware prototype, or as programming files stored in flash memory which the customer uses to program a configurable hardware prototype. In one embodiment, the server is connected to the public network through a firewall and the circuit design file is encrypted. The customer's client computer transfers the circuit design to the server using a password to create through the firewall a virtual public network authorized by the server.