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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1994
Brent Gregory, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Trinanjan Chatterjee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jing C Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Srinivas Raghvendra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Emil Girczyc, Los Altos, CA (US);
Paul Estrada, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Seawright, Cupertino, CA (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a method for displaying circuit analysis results corresponding to parts of the circuit near the portion of the hardware description language (HDL) specification that generated that part of the circuit. The invention also includes a method for using probe statements in the HDL specification to mark additional points in the initial circuit that should not be eliminated during optimization. This improves the ability to display circuit analysis results near the appropriate part of the HDL specification.