Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Race logic synthesis for large-scale integrated circuit designs
- Patent Title (中): 竞争逻辑综合大规模集成电路设计
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Application No.: US13167237Application Date: 2011-06-23
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Publication No.: US08499266B2Publication Date: 2013-07-30
- Inventor: Terence Wai-Kwok Chan
- Applicant: Terence Wai-Kwok Chan
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
Techniques for performing race logic synthesis on an integrated circuit (IC) are described herein. According to one aspect of the invention, HDL (hardware description language) and/or ESL (electronic system level) design source files of an IC design are compiled into a common design database. Race logic analysis is performed on the IC design, either by a third-party tool or by the same EDA (electronic design automation) tool that also performing race logic synthesis, if the latter has built-in race logic audit functions. Based on the race logic audit results, race logic synthesis is performed on the common design database, and getting rid of all identified race logic in the IC design. This renders the EDA tool can perform concurrent analysis of the IC design, via the race-free common design database, using multi-CPU/core computers and the results will be the same as if the EDA tool had performed serial analysis of the IC design using a single-CPU/core computer. Another aspect of the invention is outputting the re-synthesized logic in the common design database to new HDL/ESL source files. User may use these revised source files to analyze the IC design using other third-party EDA design/verification tools.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120005638A1 Race Logic Synthesis for Large-Scale Integrated Circuit Designs Public/Granted day:2012-01-05
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