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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
May. 08, 2007
Ian Campbell Dennison, Edinburgh, GB;
Mark Baker, Kinross, GB;
Bogdan Arsintescu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Donald John O'riordan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ian Campbell Dennison, Edinburgh, GB;
Mark Baker, Kinross, GB;
Bogdan Arsintescu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Donald John O'Riordan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of identifying sub-circuits in circuit designs includes: receiving a selection of a sub-circuit; specifying a match expression for the sub-circuit, where the match expression characterizes matching properties of components of the sub-circuit; modifying the match expression to change the matching properties of components of the sub-circuit; and producing an information structure in a computer readable medium, where the information structure associates a graph representing a topology of the selected sub-circuit with the modified match expression. Subsequently, the information structure corresponding to the selected sub-circuit can be identified in a given circuit design.