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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:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
Abstract
Coverage measurement tool enabling a user to create a specific coverage tool for a coverage model including a set of coverage tasks specified by the user for checking a design such as a hardware or software system, and being associated with a database and model definition that defines the coverage model. The tool includes an insertion engine for storing into the database a table containing traces resulting from multiple tests, a processing engine processing the traces in the database according to the model definition, and a coverage analyzer analyzing the measurement results from the processing engine and preparing coverage analysis reports according to the model definition.