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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2012
Applicants:

Eduard Cerny, Worcester, MA (US);

Surrendra A. Dudani, Newton, MA (US);

Samik Sengupta, Northborough, MA (US);

Inventors:

Eduard Cerny, Worcester, MA (US);

Surrendra A. Dudani, Newton, MA (US);

Samik Sengupta, Northborough, MA (US);

Assignee:

Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and techniques for evaluating assertions during circuit verification are described. During operation, m semantically equivalent assertions can be identified, wherein each of the m semantically equivalent assertions is evaluated using n logical expressions. Next, a set of vectors based on the m semantically equivalent assertions can be determined, wherein each vector element corresponds to a logical expression that is used for evaluating one of the m semantically equivalent assertions. The m semantically equivalent assertions can then be evaluated, in parallel, using the set of vectors.


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