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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2007
Bijaya Sahu, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Abhishek Kanungo, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Sandeep Pagey, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Christer Cederberg, St. Paul, MN (US);
Bijaya Sahu, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Abhishek Kanungo, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Sandeep Pagey, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Christer Cederberg, St. Paul, MN (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing a verification of digital circuits are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, design and verification checksums are calculated for instances of a desired module. The design and verification checksums may be used to further derive hierarchical design and functional checksums. In another embodiment, these checksums are used to merge multiple databases produced by verification runs. In a further embodiment a computing apparatus is provided. The computing apparatus is configured to merge multiple verification databases.