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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2011
Donald J. O'riordan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard J. O'donovan, San Jose, CA (US);
Donald J. O'Riordan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard J. O'Donovan, San Jose, CA (US);
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A netlist description that includes embedded code segments for describing a circuit is preprocessed in order to replace the embedded code segments with corresponding preprocessed code segments, where the preprocessed code segments include netlist code that can be parsed and executed. To perform this preprocessing, programming languages that include scripting operations are identified for the embedded code segments in the netlist description. A pipeline preprocessor that includes preprocessors for the identified programming languages is configured to sequentially process the netlist description and replace the embedded code segments with the corresponding preprocessed code segments.