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Synplicity, Inc.

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55Patents
0Active
55Granted
35Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jan 5, 1998 → Aug 2, 2005

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7366997B1 Methods and apparatuses for thermal analysis based circuit design Physics 233 Expired
US6581191B1 Hardware debugging in a hardware description language Physics 148 Expired
US6823497B2 Method and user interface for debugging an electronic system Physics 123 Expired
US6449762B1 Maintaining correspondence between text and schematic representations of circuit elements in circuit synthesis Physics 116 Expired
US6618839B1 Method and system for providing an electronic system design with enhanced debugging capabilities Physics 115 Expired
US6438735B1 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits Physics 94 Expired
US7240303B1 Hardware/software co-debugging in a hardware description language Physics 78 Expired
US6711729B1 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits using automatic reallocation techniques Physics 74 Expired
US7093204B2 Method and apparatus for automated synthesis of multi-channel circuits Physics 67 Expired
US6734472B2 Power and ground shield mesh to remove both capacitive and inductive signal coupling effects of routing in integrated circuit device Electricity 59 Expired
US6182268A Methods and apparatuses for automatic extraction of finite state machines Physics 54 Expired
US6519754B1 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits Physics 52 Expired
US7072818B1 Method and system for debugging an electronic system Physics 50 Expired
US6389586B1 Method and apparatus for invalid state detection Physics 43 Expired
US6668364B2 Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits Physics 37 Expired
US7200822B1 Circuits with modular redundancy and methods and apparatuses for their automated synthesis Physics 32 Expired
US7065481B2 Method and system for debugging an electronic system using instrumentation circuitry and a logic analyzer Physics 32 Expired
US7251800B2 Method and apparatus for automated circuit design Physics 31 Expired
US7278120B2 Methods and apparatuses for transient analyses of circuits Physics 27 Expired
US7069526B2 Hardware debugging in a hardware description language Physics 26 Expired
US7178118B2 Method and apparatus for automated circuit design Physics 25 Expired
US7237214B1 Method and apparatus for circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design Physics 25 Expired
US6687882B1 Methods and apparatuses for non-equivalence checking of circuits with subspace Physics 24 Expired
US6973632B1 Method and apparatus to estimate delay for logic circuit optimization Physics 24 Expired
US6904577B2 Hardware debugging in a hardware description language Physics 24 Expired

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