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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:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Guy Dupenloup, Marly-le-Roi, FR;
Kevin Christopher Cleereman, Mounds View, MN (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
Abstract
A method of efficiently characterizing modules of an integrated circuit (IC) design using a logic synthesis tool comprising the steps of defining a list of instances of the modules to characterize, and characterizing entire modules of said list of instances of the modules using a single invocation of characterize command of the logic synthesis tool.