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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Evgueni I. Goldberg, Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventor:
Evgueni I. Goldberg, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and an apparatus to perform logic synthesis preserving high-level specification and to check that a common specification (CS) of two circuits is correct have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes building a circuit Nthat preserves a predefined specification of a circuit N. In some embodiments, the method includes verifying that Nand Nindeed implement the same specification and so they are functionally equivalent.