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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:
Dec. 12, 2006

Filed:

Mar. 08, 2004
Applicants:

Yunshan Zhu, Cupertino, CA (US);

James H. Kukula, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Inventors:

Yunshan Zhu, Cupertino, CA (US);

James H. Kukula, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that verifies whether a trace can be produced by a generator. A generator is defined as a finite state machine with a set of input and output signals. A trace is defined as a sequence of assignments of non-parametric input and output signals of the generator. The generator may contain parametric inputs to model non-determinism. The trace does not contain assignments of the parametric inputs. During operation, the system builds a data structure to determine if there exists a sequence of parametric input assignments that can match the non-parametric inputs and outputs of the generator with the ones specified in the trace.


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