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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
William J. Wen, Austin, TX (US);
Ashwin Matta, Round Rock, TX (US);
William J. Wen, Austin, TX (US);
Ashwin Matta, Round Rock, TX (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An invention is provided for building configurable designs synthesizable to gates. The invention includes creating a configurable design using an HDL. The configurable design has a plurality of instantiated configurable constructs that can be optionally included in a design. Basically, the configurable design is an all-inclusive design having a large set of features, including varying interfaces, FIFO depths, and other features. Then, a derived design is generated by removing configurable constructs from the configurable design based on a specification, typically a customer specification received from a customer for a particular design. The specification indicates which configurable constructs are to be included in a derived design. Thereafter, the derived design is synthesizable in logic.