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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2005
Applicant:
Vikram Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Vikram Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for designing an integrated circuit having analog and digital circuit portions is disclosed. The method involves providing an emulation circuit, which preferably comprises a number of gates equivalent to a number of gates in the digital circuit portion, affixing the emulation circuit on a test substrate together with a version of the analog circuit portion having at least some of the defined functions of the analog circuit portion, and then testing the analog circuit version.