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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald K Covey, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sandra G Schneider, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364489 ; 364488 ;
Abstract
A hierarchial hardware flowchart methodology for design of integrated circuits utilizes repetitious symbols in a first level flowchart with a single macro flowchart symbol per instance that conveys the same information, resulting in a two-dimensional flowchart. This allows the same information to be conveyed in a smaller, more readable format.