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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998
Filed:
May. 12, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tai A Ly, San Jose, CA (US);
David W Knapp, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ronald A Miller, Mountain View, CA (US);
Donald B Macmillen, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Assignee:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395500 ; 364578 ; 364488 ; 364489 ; 364490 ;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for creating a representation of a circuit with a pipelined loop from an HDL source code description. It infers a circuit including a pipelined loop which has cycle level simulation behavior matching that of the source HDL. Loop carry dependencies and memory and signal I/O accesses within the loop are scheduled correctly.