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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Stephen J. Barnfield, New York, NY (US);
Ali S. El-Zein, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of non-invasive insertion of logic functions into a register-transfer level (RTL) design, including: selecting a logic function to insert into a RTL design; identifying each hierarchical level executing at least a portion of the logic function; identifying a highest hierarchical level amongst hierarchical levels having each hierarchical level executing at least a portion of the logic function; and inserting all connections necessary to execute the logic function into a hardware description representation of the highest hierarchical level, without modifying a hardware description representation of any other hierarchical levels.