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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2002
Fritz A. Boehm, Austin, TX (US);
Fritz A. Boehm, Austin, TX (US);
Intrinsity, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The monitor manager manages the execution of monitors during the simulation of a digital design. The monitor manager () includes an instance generator () that creates executable instances () of monitors that may be time-dependent monitors, an activation manager () that assigns instances to be active or inactive, and an execution unit () that executes active instances and receives returned status values passed, failed, active, or error. Executable instances of time-dependent monitors are software state machines having a state variable, one or more time-dependent variables, and at least two state-driven code blocks, at least one of which might be either a cycle-dependent code block that tests for a specific cycle-dependent condition, or an event-dependent code block that tests for a specific event-dependent condition. In either case, the state-driven code block increments the time-dependent variable, and, when the condition has been satisfied, increments the state variable.