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Quickturn Design Systems, Inc.

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90Patents
11Active
90Granted
39Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jan 31, 1992 → Jun 24, 2009 · 11 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5452239A Method of removing gated clocks from the clock nets of a netlist for timing sensitive implementation of the netlist in a hardware emulation system Physics 312 Expired
US5425036A Method and apparatus for debugging reconfigurable emulation systems Physics 291 Expired
US5452231A Hierarchically connected reconfigurable logic assembly Physics 198 Expired
US6732068B2 Memory circuit for use in hardware emulation system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 197 Expired
US6184707A Look-up table based logic element with complete permutability of the inputs to the secondary signals Physics 176 Expired
US5448496A Partial crossbar interconnect architecture for reconfigurably connecting multiple reprogrammable logic devices in a logic emulation system Physics 145 Expired
US5475830A Structure and method for providing a reconfigurable emulation circuit without hold time violations Physics 127 Expired
US5887158A Switching midplane and interconnecting system for interconnecting large numbers of signals Electricity 126 Expired
US5960191A Emulation system with time-multiplexed interconnect Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 118 Expired
US6020760A I/O buffer circuit with pin multiplexing Electricity 117 Expired
US6694464B1 Method and apparatus for dynamically testing electrical interconnect Physics 100 Expired
US6285211A I/O buffer circuit with pin multiplexing Electricity 97 Expired
US6446249B1 Emulation circuit with a hold time algorithm, logic and analyzer and shadow memory Physics 92 Expired
US5612891A Hardware logic emulation system with memory capability Physics 92 Expired
US6377912B1 Emulation system with time-multiplexed interconnect Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 90 Expired
US5841967A Method and apparatus for design verification using emulation and simulation Physics 87 Expired
US5943490A Distributed logic analyzer for use in a hardware logic emulation system Physics 85 Expired
US5819065A System and method for emulating memory Physics 77 Expired
US6618698B1 Clustered processors in an emulation engine Physics 76 Expired
US5661662A Structures and methods for adding stimulus and response functions to a circuit design undergoing emulation Physics 72 Expired
US5920712A Emulation system having multiple emulator clock cycles per emulated clock cycle Physics 70 Expired
US6002861A Method for performing simulation using a hardware emulation system Physics 67 Expired
US5477475A Method for emulating a circuit design using an electrically reconfigurable hardware emulation apparatus Physics 66 Expired
US5970240A Method and apparatus for configurable memory emulation Physics 61 Expired
US5940603A Method and apparatus for emulating multi-ported memory circuits Physics 56 Expired

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