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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1999
Hamilton B. Carter, Austin, TX (US);
Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The computational load of using a sequencer system and the memory allocation requirements demanded for sequencer operation are reduced in operation with functional models that do not require the services of a sequencer. The computational overhead introduced by the sequencer is reduced, and memory resources for a sequencer are diminished. Functional models that do not require sequencing are created with the same framework as functional models that do require sequencing, while eliminating the sequencer's computational overhead for functional models that do not require sequencing, and allowing functional models that to not require sequencing to be created without allocating the memory required to support the sequencer. Further, both sequenced and un-sequenced functional models coexist in the same sequenced verification framework, permitting the un-sequenced functional models to avoid the computational and memory allocation overhead otherwise incurred by the sequencer.