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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1999
Laura A. Weber, Austin, TX (US);
Fritz A. Boehm, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Jean Anne Booth, Austin, TX (US);
Terri Lynn Fukuhara, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey S. Leonard, Austin, TX (US);
Shawn D. Strawbridge, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas N. Good, Austin, TX (US);
Intrinsity, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a grid that is a monitor that detects a cross product of design verification events and reports a single status event to a database. One embodiment of the present invention comprises axes declarations, logic expressions, and a grid declaration. An axes declaration produces a cross product of verification events. A logic expressions evaluates whether a specific verification event has occurred. A grid declaration returns the status event. The present invention further comprises a grid where the cross-product of verification events comprises a fully or a sparsely populated cross-product of verification events. Additionally, the present invention further comprises a grid that uses N-Nary signals. And, the present invention comprises a parser to translate the monitor source file code into a standard computer language code.