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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1999
Rajarshi Mukherjee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jawahar Jain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vamsi Boppana, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A system and method for verifying sequential circuits. A single pair of storage elements is selected from a single sequential circuit using the selected pairs of storage elements. A distinguishing sequence of test vectors is computed. Using the computed distinguishing sequence of test vectors, the other storage elements of the sequential circuits are distinguished. Based on the storage elements distinguished in the circuits, a correspondence between the storage elements of the circuits is determined and thus, equivalences between the circuits is found using combinational equivalence checking and the sequential circuit is verified. Alternatively, by using Boolean decision diagrams, the storage elements in the sequential circuit are distinguished and likewise distinguishing groups of storage elements are created. These distinguishing groups are further refined by building new Boolean decision diagrams until no new groupings are created and correspondence between the storage elements of the circuits is determined.