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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2008
Wolfgang Roesner, Austin, TX (US);
Robert J. Shadowen, Austin, TX (US);
Derek E. Williams, Austin, TX (US);
Wolfgang Roesner, Austin, TX (US);
Robert J. Shadowen, Austin, TX (US);
Derek E. Williams, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
One or more hardware description language (HDL) files describe a plurality of hierarchically arranged design entities defining a digital design to be simulated and a plurality of configuration entities not belonging to the digital design that logically control settings of a plurality of configuration latches in the digital design. The HDL file(s) are compiled to obtain a simulation executable model of the digital design and an associated configuration database. The compiling includes parsing a configuration statement that specifies an association between an instance of a configuration entity and a specified configuration latch, determining whether or not the specified configuration latch is described in the HDL file(s), and if not, creating an indication in the configuration database that the instance of the configuration latch had a specified association to a configuration latch to which it failed to bind.