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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Etienne Lepercq, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
SYNOPSYS, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5027 (2013.01); G06F 17/5054 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of emulating a circuit design using an emulator is presented. The method includes allocating one or more spare routing resources to one or more field programmable gate array (FPGA) routing sockets when compiling a plurality of FPGAs disposed in the emulator in preparation for emulating the circuit design, and using the one or more spare routing resources to provide one or more routings among the FPGAs in response to one or more changes made to the circuit design.