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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2005
Applicants:
Tathagato Rai Dastidar, Bangalore, IN;
Amir Yashfe, Tel-Mord, IL;
Partha Ray, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated circuit design simulation method is provided that takes advantage of the fact that, when an instance of a circuit module has been simulated under a given set of input conditions, and the resulting output values and delays have been evaluated, another instance of the same module need not be re-simulated when it has the same input combination as the prior circuit module instance. The results computed earlier for the earlier circuit module instance can be re-used for the current circuit module instance.