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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. 11, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hitoshi Kurosaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
Abstract
The present invention is used to verify an equivalence between a software for realizing a predetermined function and a hardware data created according to the software and constituting a hardware operating identically as a processing by the software. The LSI verification method of the present invention simulates each of the hardware data and the software and compares, according to a signal I/O condition defining operation of the hardware, an I/O signal state as a simulation result by the hardware data to a software variable as a simulation result of the software for verification of the equivalent.