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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2002
Charles Corey Pie, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Timothy Charles Fischer, Berthoud, CO (US);
Samuel David Naffziger, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method for evaluating a circuit design to identify potential race conditions including the steps of identifying switching elements in a design, storing control node and switched node pair information for each of the switching elements, identifying stacks of the switching elements; storing information about the stacks of switching elements; identifying parallel connected ones of the switching elements; identifying parallel stacks; and calculating a combined switching current for the parallel switching elements and stacks.