Method for providing an improved human user interface to a knowledge based system

Claim 1

An improved process for interfacing a human with knowledge based integrated circuit design system, in which a computer aided design system is capable of executing schematic capture and an expert system is capable of analyzing the schematic to identify design deficiencies, wherein the improvement comprises: electronically extracting advice information from the expert system; electronically inserting into an advice directory a cross-reference to said extracted advice, the extracted advice text, and the extracted advice schematic location information; storing the advice directory in a file by advice key words; building an advice menu suitable to select extracted advice information by said key words; building a command menu suitable to manipulate computer aided design system schematic information; and displaying in response to selection by the human user both schematic information and advice information in correspondence with the location of the schematic information.