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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2005
Applicants:
Stephen Paul Wilcox, Cambridge, GB;
Simon Kinahan, Cambridge, GB;
Ronald Ian Shipman, Herts, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Azuro (UK) Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for estimating the average-case activity in a digital circuit includes the steps of identifying a state machine in the digital circuit, and propagating activity values through the state machine to obtain activity information at an output of a flop in the state machine using a predetermined formula.