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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2005
Lisa J. Piper, Macungie, PA (US);
Carol Lemche, Cedar, MN (US);
Arthur Jurchisin, Shoreview, MN (US);
Purnima Das, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Lisa J. Piper, Macungie, PA (US);
Carol Lemche, Cedar, MN (US);
Arthur Jurchisin, Shoreview, MN (US);
Purnima Das, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Quickturn Design Systems Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for hardware based reporting of assertion information for emulation and hardware acceleration is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing assertion-based verification, comprises providing a user interface to design assertions that aid in verifying an integrated circuit design. Assertion instrumentation code is generated to implement the assertions in hardware as assertion instrumentation. The assertion instrumentation code is provided to an emulator that generates the assertion instrumentation.