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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:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Merwin H. Alferness, New Brighton, MN (US);
Mark D. Aubel, Essex Jct., VT (US);
Frederick H. Hathaway, St. Paul, MN (US);
Assignee:
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ; G06F 9/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/750 ; G06F 9/45 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for selectively providing modularity and/or hierarchy to a behavioral description of a circuit design. This is accomplished by providing a template call in the behavioral description of the circuit design. The template call provides a reference to a corresponding template behavioral description. The behavioral description of the circuit design is expanded using an expander preprocessor, wherein a command line switch is used to selectively provide modularity and/or hierarchy to the resulting behavioral description.