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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2004

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Yuuichi Kurosawa, Hino, JP;

Naohiko Okamoto, Ome, JP;

Koichi Nishide, Tachikawa, JP;

Tsukasa Matoba, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
Abstract

A statement is embedded in a description of a circuit for design in hardware description language stored in a function description storage section, the above statement outputting messages that test items have been tested according to a procedure stored in a package storage section. A function simulation executing section executes simulations to store the above messages in a message storage section. A report output section determines every test whether all the test items have been tested or not, based on messages stored in a message storage section, and data denoting a correspondence relationship between test vector names stored in a test data storage section and test items which are tested according to the above messages and outputs report of the determination results.


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