US Patent 11294647 Support apparatus and design support method

A storage device stores a source code and a model created by referencing a source code. A processor generates a terminal generation setting file in which a terminal of a code block is written, by searching a terminal block included in the model read from the storage device and defining the terminal of the code block based on the terminal block obtained from a search result of the terminal block. Further, the processor writes, in the code block, a terminal linking code indicating a correspondence relationship between the terminal written in the terminal generation setting file and the source code. Furthermore, the processor compiles, using the terminal generation setting file, the code block in which the terminal linking code is written into a format executable in the model execution environment.