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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:
Nov. 01, 2005

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2000
Applicants:

Charles W. Selvidge, Wellesley, MA (US);

Kenneth W. Crouch, Cambridge, MA (US);

Muralidhar R. Kudlugi, Framingham, MA (US);

Soha M. N. Hassoun, Lexington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Charles W. Selvidge, Wellesley, MA (US);

Kenneth W. Crouch, Cambridge, MA (US);

Muralidhar R. Kudlugi, Framingham, MA (US);

Soha M. N. Hassoun, Lexington, MA (US);

Assignee:

Mentor Graphics Corporation, Wilsonville, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/455 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method allows two substantially asynchronous system components of a logic emulation system to exchange data packets with reference to a clock signal of predetermined frequency. In one example, each bit is transmitted across the system components over two or more cycles of the clock signal. The reference clock signal can be distributed to the two system components from a common clock signal generator, or can be generated locally independently.


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