Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Partitioning and parallel processing of a virtual prototype simulation of a hardware design
- Patent Title (中): 硬件设计的虚拟原型仿真的分区和并行处理
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Application No.: US13804517Application Date: 2013-03-14
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Publication No.: US09098652B2Publication Date: 2015-08-04
- Inventor: Mark Kostick , David C. Scott , William E. Neifert , Joseph Tatham , Matt Grasse
- Applicant: Carbon Design Systems Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Acton
- Assignee: CARBON DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee: CARBON DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Acton
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F17/50

Abstract:
A method including accessing a first virtual prototype configured to perform a first simulation of a hardware design, identifying checkpoints within the first virtual prototype, each checkpoint including a storage state and/or behavioral state, and determining breakpoints for dividing execution of a second virtual prototype into a series of execution segments, where the second virtual prototype is configured to perform a second simulation of the hardware design, the second virtual prototype includes virtual models representing a separate portion of the hardware design, each virtual model representing a same portion of the hardware design as a corresponding virtual model of the first virtual prototype. The method may include mapping the storage state and/or behavioral state of each checkpoint to a respective execution segment, executing the second simulation while collecting respective data regarding execution of each execution segment, where two or more execution segments are executed concurrently, and aggregating the respective data.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140107995A1 PARTITIONING AND PARALLEL PROCESSING OF A VIRTUAL PROTOTYPE SIMULATION OF A HARDWARE DESIGN Public/Granted day:2014-04-17
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