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- Patent Title: Timing verification method for circuits
- Patent Title (中): 电路定时验证方法
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Application No.: US13409002Application Date: 2012-02-29
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Publication No.: US08484592B1Publication Date: 2013-07-09
- Inventor: Fatih Kocan
- Applicant: Fatih Kocan
- Applicant Address: SA Makkah
- Assignee: Umm Al-Qura University
- Current Assignee: Umm Al-Qura University
- Current Assignee Address: SA Makkah
- Agent Richard C. Litman
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
The timing verification method for stochastic networks and circuits is a computerized method that includes a Valued-Sum-of-Products (VSOP) tool as an extension to Zero-suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZBDD) to compute and store paths with their corresponding lengths or statistical parameters. This method starts from source vertices and inductively builds a path database in the topological order of gates. At each node the method builds a set of partial paths that terminated that node using VSOP expressions. Path queries are performed on all paths using VSOP operations, thereby querying the top K-most critical paths in integrated circuit networks.
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