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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018

Filed:

May. 04, 2016
Applicant:

Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited, Haifa, IL;

Inventors:

Leonid Azriel, Haifa, IL;

Abraham Mendelson, Haifa, IL;

Ran Ginosar, Nofit, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5045 (2013.01); G06F 2217/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computerized method of creating a circuit logic model of a VLSI device, comprising mapping a plurality of logic function patterns of one or more circuits of a VLSI device through a plurality of probe iterations and generating a circuit logic model of the circuit(s) by reconstructing a logical function of a combinatorial logic of the circuit(s) based on analysis of the logic function patterns. Each of the probe iteration comprises switching between scan shift mode and functional mode of the VLSI device such that while the VLSI device operates in scan shift mode register(s) associated with the circuit(s) is accessed and while the VLSI device operates in functional mode external pin(s) of the VLSI device associated with the circuit(s) is probed and mapping a respective one of the logic function patterns according to a logic state of one or more bits in the register(s) and/or the external pin(s).


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