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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2008
Swatiben Ruturaj Pathak, Fremont, CA (US);
Babette Van Antwerpen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael D. Hutton, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Leaver, Los Altos, CA (US);
Swatiben Ruturaj Pathak, Fremont, CA (US);
Babette Van Antwerpen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael D. Hutton, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Leaver, Los Altos, CA (US);
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Circuits, methods, software, and apparatus that track the removal of, reasons for, and consequence of the removal of registers or other circuitry during the synthesis of electronic circuits. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention tracks the removal of registers and determines why the registers were removed. This information is then provided in an efficient manner for design debugging purposes.