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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Breno Rodrigues Guimarães, Minas Gerais, BR;
Abner Luis Panho Marciano, Minas Gerais, BR;
Fabiano Peixoto, Belo Horizonte, BR;
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are techniques for enhancing formal verification with counter acceleration for electronic designs. These techniques identify at least a portion of an electronic design including a counter having a current counter value and intercept next counter values transmitted to the counter with a counter abstraction module. These techniques further determine whether to accelerate the counter from the current counter value to an engine synthesized next counter value, rather than to an original next counter value based at least in part on a set of critical values. The counter is accelerated from the current counter value to the engine synthesized next counter value when the counter abstraction module determines to accelerate the counter.