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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2016
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Ngai Ngai William Hung, San Jose, CA (US);
Dhiraj Goswami, Wilsonville, OR (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a resettable memory device including a memory unit, a reset status indicator circuit, a logic sampling circuit, and a multiplexer for performing a reset function. The memory unit includes cells for storing states of signals in a design under test. The reset status indicator stores states of indicators indicating whether corresponding cells should be reset or not. Responsive to the reset status indicator indicating that the value of the cell should not be reset, the multiplexer receives the value stored in the cell and outputs the retrieved value from the cell. Responsive to the reset status indicator indicating that the value of the cell should be reset, the multiplexer outputs a reset value instead of the value stored in the cell. The reset value may be changed by the logic sampling circuit at different time periods or certain logic conditions, and output through the multiplexer.