Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analyzing integrated circuit operations
- Patent Title (中): 分析集成电路操作
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Application No.: US12543099Application Date: 2009-08-18
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Publication No.: US08151231B2Publication Date: 2012-04-03
- Inventor: Robert L. Bailey , Brian D. Howard
- Applicant: Robert L. Bailey , Brian D. Howard
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F17/50 ; G06F3/038 ; G09G5/00

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for viewing and/or analyzing the operations and logical states of an integrated circuit. The logical state of various flip-flops within the ASIC may be determined at a specified time. The embodiment may store these flip-flop states in a computer-readable data structure, such as a file or database. By repeating this process and incrementing or decrementing the time with each repetition, a more complete picture of the ASIC's operation may be captured. Additionally, the embodiment may graphically display the flip-flop states, for example as a graph or waveform.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100045643A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING CIRCUIT OPERATIONS Public/Granted day:2010-02-25
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