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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:
Aug. 03, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1996
Michael D Rostoker, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Carlos Dangelo, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Owen S Bair, Saratoga, CA (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided herein for creating and validating an electronic design structural description of a circuit or device from a VHDL description of the circuit or device which includes a compiler for compiling the VHDL description of the circuit or device; a device for locating problems within the compiled description and measuring the effectiveness of solving the problems; a device for passing information including the compiled description to a physical design level; a physical design tool for receiving the information and creating a physical design therefrom; and a device for back annotating the information from the physical design tool to the compiler.