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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2007
Applicants:
Anubhav Gupta, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ken L. Mcmillan, Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anubhav Gupta, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ken L. McMillan, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for computing an exact minimal automaton to act as an intermediate assertion in assume-guarantee reasoning. In one embodiment, the computing an exact minimal automaton is performed by using a sampling approach and a Boolean satisfiability. The methods described herein may be used as part of a tool for formal verification.