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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2012
Applicant:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Inventor:
Randall Don Briggs, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International, Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 11/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A circuit verification method for a logic circuit is presented. The method includes developing a first hardware description language (HDL) code representative of the logic circuit and, for an embedded portion of the logic circuit, developing a second HDL code representative of the embedded portion. The second HDL code includes a process of forcing inputs of the embedded portion to one or more known values. The method further includes operating a processing device in conjunction with the first and second HDL codes and verifying operation of the embedded portion in response to forcing the inputs to the logic circuit.