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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1999
Laura A. Weber, Austin, TX (US);
Fritz A. Boehm, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Jean Anne Booth, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey S. Leonard, Austin, TX (US);
Shawn D. Strawbridge, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas N. Good, Austin, TX (US);
Laura A. Weber, Austin, TX (US);
Fritz A. Boehm, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Jean Anne Booth, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey S. Leonard, Austin, TX (US);
Shawn D. Strawbridge, Austin, TX (US);
Douglas N. Good, Austin, TX (US);
Intrinsity, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a monitor that detects a design verification event and reports a status event to a database. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a monitor declaration, zero or more signal declarations, zero or more bus declarations and one or more logic expressions. A logic expression, formulated using the declared signals and buses, is used to evaluate whether a specific verification event has occurred. The present invention further comprises a monitor where the signal of the signal declaration of the monitor is an N-Nary signal. Additionally, the present invention comprises a parser to translate the monitor source file code into a standard computer language code.