Fault support in an emulation environment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7983893
APP PUB NO 20090177459A1
SERIAL NO

11971125

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An emulator is disclosed that allows for diagnoses of failures or defects within the emulator. A map of faulty resources is generated to identify which resources should be avoided during compilation. Thus, in a transparent and automated manner, defects found during diagnostics are stored in a database of unusable emulator resources. A compiler has access to the database and compiles the design taking into account unusable resources. In another embodiment, the defects of an emulator board are stored on the emulator board itself. This allows each board to store its own maintenance information that can be used at the manufacturing site for changing defective chips. Defects stored on the board itself allow the defects to be obtained independent of a position of a board within the emulator to simplify identification of the faulty resource.

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  • MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION;MENTOR GRAPHICS, META SYSTEMS DIVISION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Durand, Eric La Ville du Bois, FR 47 762
Fadel, John Les Ulis, FR 5 89
Reymond, Estelle Orsay, FR 10 178

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