Synopsys, Inc.

Mahantesh D Narwade

Rajarshi Mukherjee

Kaushik De

Namit Gupta

Kevin Michael Harer

Dipti Ranjan Senapati

Jean-Marc Albert Forey

Horia A Toma

Abhinav Singla

Soumen Ghosh

Mark Roizman

Suman Nandan

Vijaya V Varkey

Subhamoy Pal

A word-level design model may be loaded into memory. Next, a masking layer may be created which includes objects in the word-level design model that are not used by an IC design analysis system. The masking layer may then be used to provide a reduced block model view on-the-fly to the IC design analysis system.

Generating a reduced block model view on-the-fly

Methods and apparatuses related to clock-domain-crossing (CDC) specific design mutations to model silicon behavior and measure verification robustness are described. CDC signal paths can be identified in a circuit design. Next, synchronization circuitry associated with the CDC signal paths can be identified. Design mutations can be added to the identified synchronization circuitry. The design mutations can then be used during functional verification to measure verification robustness of a circuit verification test suite.

Clock-domain-crossing specific design mutations to model silicon behavior and measure verification robustness

A method for controlling the functional output of a verification tool upon receipt of a circuit description comprises searching for a predetermined base pattern in the circuit description. The method further comprises searching for predetermined sub-patterns that are assigned to the base pattern, in the circuit description. The method further comprises the validation of each found sub-pattern based on a predetermined rule to minimize the set of reported errors that based on verification of the circuit description.

Verification of circuit structures including sub-structure variants

Systems and techniques for detecting design problems in a circuit design are described. A higher-level abstraction of the circuit design can be synthesized to obtain a lower-level abstraction of the circuit design, and a mapping between signals in the higher-level abstraction and the signals in the lower-level abstraction. A design problem can be detected in the circuit design in response to determining that a possible glitch in a signal in the lower-level abstraction is not blocked when an enable signal is assigned a blocking value. The enable signal and the corresponding blocking value are identified by analyzing the higher-level abstraction.

Accurate glitch detection

A method for functional verification of a circuit description comprises generating a first set of crossover paths based on the circuit description, generating a low power information based on a power design description associated with the circuit description, the low power information determining a set of power state combinations, and generating a second set of crossover paths based on the first set of crossover paths and the low power information, the second set of crossover paths being a subset of the first set of crossover paths. Each of the second set of crossover paths is evaluated to identify circuit description errors, in particular functional circuit description errors.

Minimizing crossover paths for functional verification of a circuit description

Verification-result ranking techniques for root cause analysis are disclosed using violation report analysis and violation weighting. Violation reports are unwieldy and result from a variety of design and process checks. The check coverage can overlap, causing a specific violation to trigger multiple reported violations. High turn around times for violation report analysis increase the risk that selective violation analysis will inadvertently suppress real design bugs. This reduces the odds that static checker reports alone will meet design sign-off criteria. Determining relationships among a plurality of violations for a design permits clustering violations into hot spots. Identification of primary and subsequent contributors to the plurality of violations is based on the relationships among violations. The hot spot with the highest weight is identified, and then subsequent violations are identified to maximize violation coverage. The result is greater efficiency of design violation identification and resolution.

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Mahantesh D Narwade