Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for power verification using efficient merging of power state tables
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Application No.: US14815202Application Date: 2015-07-31
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Publication No.: US10311192B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Shekaripuram V. Venkatesh , Sanjay Gulati , Vishal Keswani , Manish Goel , Nitin Sharma
- Applicant: Synopsys, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
A power verification system requires a combination of design and its power intent. A power intent (PI) input specifies the power architecture of a design through specification of power/voltage domains, their corresponding power supplies and a collection of power management devices. Power state tables (PSTs) specified in PI capture the legal combinations of power states (voltage values) for the various sets of supply nets or supply ports of a design. A power verification system requires determining the power supply relationships of voltage/power domains which requires merging of PSTs. The system described efficiently merges PSTs by iteratively selecting only a subset of PSTs that are relevant to the supply pair of interest, that are pruned initially and as the merge progresses. This provides orders of magnitude speedup and resource reduction. A user interface allows display of identified power verification failures and may include an input device for facilitating correction of at least one of the electronic circuit design and the power intent file.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160292346A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POWER VERIFICATION USING EFFICIENT MERGING OF POWER STATE TABLES Public/Granted day:2016-10-06
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