Darren C Cronquist

Title: Darren C. Cronquist and Block Virtualization for Electronic Design Automation

Introduction

Darren C. Cronquist is an inventor based in San Francisco, California, whose patent work addresses electronic design automation (EDA). His listed inventions focus on virtualizing blocks in integrated-circuit designs to support multi-threaded database access. He is associated with Synopsys, Inc., and is credited with 2 patents.

Latest Patents

Cronquist’s latest listed patent is titled “Block Virtualization for Multi-Threaded Electronic Design Automation Read/Write Database Access.” The disclosed method accesses an electronic design of an integrated circuit and generates a virtual block corresponding to an actual block. The virtual block contains virtual subblocks corresponding to the actual block’s subblocks.

The method clones or shallow-copies the subblocks’ contents into the corresponding virtual subblocks. Those virtual contents remain linked to the actual subblocks, so the approach avoids copying the underlying data. This design supports multi-threaded read/write access to EDA databases while working with integrated-circuit designs.

Career Highlights

Cronquist’s listed patent activity reflects work on database access and design-data management for EDA. His association with Synopsys connects his work to a company that develops software and services for semiconductor design and verification.

Collaborations

The provided information lists John R. Chase and Paul M. Furnanz as Cronquist’s coworkers. Their names are associated with his professional context, though no specific roles in the patent are provided.

Conclusion

Darren C. Cronquist’s patent work centers on virtualizing integrated-circuit design blocks to enable efficient, multi-threaded EDA database access without duplicating data.