US Patent No: 7,739,093

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Method of visualization in processor based emulation system

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Abstract

A processor-based emulation system for emulating an integrated circuit design, the processor-based emulation system including emulation circuitry and capture circuitry. The capture circuitry is operable to capture processing results from the emulation circuitry. The captured processing results can be used to identify functional errors in the integrated circuit design. Because the processor-based emulation system includes capture circuitry, emulation circuitry is not used for capturing the processing results.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.SAN JOSE, CA1294

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Beausoleil, William F Hopewell Junction, NY 33 425
Elmufdi, Beshara Sunnyvale, CA 6 8
Sarkisian, Arthur P Tillson, NY 2 4
Thomas, Lawrence A West Hurley, NY 8 16

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Patent Info (Count) # Cites Year
 
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC. (26)
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5,452,239 Method of removing gated clocks from the clock nets of a netlist for timing sensitive implementation of the netlist in a hardware emulation system 236 1993
5,680,583 Method and apparatus for a trace buffer in an emulation system 67 1994
5,551,013 Multiprocessor for hardware emulation 107 1994
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5,644,515 Hardware logic emulation system capable of probing internal nodes in a circuit design undergoing emulation 38 1995
5,761,488 Logic translation method for increasing simulation emulation efficiency 4 1996
5,822,564 Checkpointing in an emulation system 25 1996
5,841,967 Method and apparatus for design verification using emulation and simulation 66 1996
5,946,472 Apparatus and method for performing behavioral modeling in hardware emulation and simulation environments 44 1996
5,920,712 Emulation system having multiple emulator clock cycles per emulated clock cycle 44 1996
5,963,736 Software reconfigurable target I/O in a circuit emulation system 13 1997
6,141,636 Logic analysis subsystem in a time-sliced emulator 14 1997
5,884,066 Method and apparatus for a trace buffer in an emulation system 17 1997
5,943,490 Distributed logic analyzer for use in a hardware logic emulation system 63 1997
5,970,240 Method and apparatus for configurable memory emulation 45 1997
6,035,117 Tightly coupled emulation processors 20 1998
6,051,030 Emulation module having planar array organization 27 1998
6,058,492 Method and apparatus for design verification using emulation and simulation 31 1998
6,523,155 Method for partitioning a netlist into multiple clock domains 19 1998
6,618,698 Clustered processors in an emulation engine 34 1999
6,832,185 Non-synchronous hardware emulator 11 2000
6,782,355 Apparatus for improving concurrent behavior modeling with emulation 9 2000
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6,539,535 Programmable logic device having integrated probing structures 26 2001
 
MENTOR GRAPHICS (HOLDING) LTD. (8)
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5,754,827 Method and apparatus for performing fully visible tracing of an emulation 94 1995
5,777,489 Field programmable gate array with integrated debugging facilities 60 1995
5,790,832 Method and apparatus for tracing any node of an emulation 29 1996
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5,999,725 Method and apparatus tracing any node of an emulation 56 1998
6,240,376 Method and apparatus for gate-level simulation of synthesized register transfer level designs with source-level debugging 35 1998
 
MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION (3)
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6,223,148 Logic analysis system for logic emulation systems 32 1998
2001/0010,036 Logic analysis system for logic emulation systems 4 2001
 
QUICKTURN DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC. (3)
4,914,612 Massively distributed simulation engine 78 1988
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ARKOS, INC. (1)
5,923,865 Emulation system having multiple emulated clock cycles per emulator clock cycle and improved signal routing 10 1995
 
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC. (1)
5,784,427 Feedback and shift unit 7 1996
 
INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC. (1)
6,173,425 Methods of testing integrated circuits to include data traversal path identification information and related status information in test data streams 22 1998
 
PIE DESIGNS SYSTEMS, INC. (1)
5,425,036 Method and apparatus for debugging reconfigurable emulation systems 229 1992
 
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (1)
6,457,141 Semiconductor device with embedded memory cells 24 1999

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CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC. (1)
7,904,288 Hardware emulator having a variable input emulation group 0 2006

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