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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2003
Tuan Dao, Richardson, TX (US);
Seshagiri P. Kalluri, Richardson, TX (US);
Shannon A. Wichman, McKinney, TX (US);
Tuan Dao, Richardson, TX (US);
Seshagiri P. Kalluri, Richardson, TX (US);
Shannon A. Wichman, McKinney, TX (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for, and method of, reference-modeling a processor design. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an architecture database that contains specifications regarding the processor design that include: instruction set specifications, architectural resource specifications, pipeline specifications and connectivity specifications, (2) a simulation subsystem that draws selected portions of the specifications to simulate and test the processor design and (3) a documentation subsystem that draws other selected portions of the specifications to document and register-model the processor design, changes in the specifications being propagated to the architecture database.