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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:
May. 22, 2007

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2003
Applicant:

Vi Chi Chan, Toronto, CA;

Inventor:

Vi Chi Chan, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of a rule-based operation can include the steps of dividing a design rule into at least one of three components including an application criteria, a rule condition, and an action. The method can further include the steps of expressing the design rule as a datafile or source code and binding the three components together to form a rule object at runtime.


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