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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:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Jasper Design Automation, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ;
Abstract
This invention determines whether two logic level circuit models have equivalent functionality. The method allows difficult portions of the equivalent functionality check to be partitioned and concurrently solved in a distributed computing environment. This permits the user to use, in a scalable fashion, additional computing resources to rapidly solve difficult equivalent functionality checks. The method allows difficult checks to be solved using ( ) a divide-and-conquer approach, ( ) by a competitive approach in which many independent attempts are made to solve the same check, or ( ) by allocating more resources to solve the difficult check.