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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Paul C. Foster, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
James Britton, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan Mayes, Fareham, GB;
Richard E. Seiter, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method which allows for burst licensing, particularly for use in a circuit design and analysis system in which designers use tools to assist in characterizing and verifying the circuit. Burst licensing is used to provide licenses on an 'as and when required' basis to allow system users or customers to carry out massive parallelism of the simulation tasks when run from selected tools. When the system receives a request to start a task, the system checks-out a burst license for use in processing the task, and assigns the license to a particular CPU. The task is then performed at that CPU, and once completed the burst license is returned to the license pool.