Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Robert L. Kanzelman

75Patents
8h-index
26Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 10, 1994 → Dec 10, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5537330A Method for mapping in logic synthesis by logic classification Physics 45 Expired
US6763505B2 Apparatus and method for automated use of phase abstraction for enhanced verification of circuit designs Physics 18 Expired
US5799170A Simplified buffer manipulation using standard repowering function Physics 17 Expired
US7260799B2 Exploiting suspected redundancy for enhanced design verification Physics 15 Expired
US6748573B2 Apparatus and method for removing effects of phase abstraction from a phase abstracted trace Physics 11 Expired
US7448005B2 Method and system for performing utilization of traces for incremental refinement in coupling a structural overapproximation algorithm and a satisfiability solver Physics 10 Active
US7266795B2 System and method for engine-controlled case splitting within multiple-engine based verification framework Physics 9 Expired
US6745377B2 Apparatus and method for representing gated-clock latches for phase abstraction Physics 9 Expired
US7315996B2 Method and system for performing heuristic constraint simplification Physics 8 Expired
US7210109B2 Equivalence checking of scan path flush operations Physics 8 Expired
US8146034B2 Efficient Redundancy Identification, Redundancy Removal, and Sequential Equivalence Checking within Designs Including Memory Arrays. Physics 7 Active
US7380222B2 Method and system for performing minimization of input count during structural netlist overapproximation Physics 7 Expired
US7934180B2 Incremental speculative merging Physics 7 Active
US7356792B2 Method and system for enhanced verification by closely coupling a structural overapproximation algorithm and a structural satisfiability solver Physics 7 Expired
US7779378B2 Computer program product for extending incremental verification of circuit design to encompass verification restraints Physics 7 Active
US8578311B1 Method and system for optimal diameter bounding of designs with complex feed-forward components Physics 6 Active
US7350169B2 Method and system for enhanced verification through structural target decomposition Physics 6 Expired
US7509605B2 Extending incremental verification of circuit design to encompass verification restraints Physics 6 Active
US8181131B2 Enhanced analysis of array-based netlists via reparameterization Physics 5 Active
US7093218B2 Incremental, assertion-based design verification Physics 5 Expired
US7788616B2 Method and system for performing heuristic constraint simplification Physics 5 Active
US7340694B2 Method and system for reduction of XOR/XNOR subexpressions in structural design representations Physics 5 Expired
US7793242B2 Method and system for performing heuristic constraint simplification Physics 5 Active
US7360185B2 Design verification using sequential and combinational transformations Physics 5 Expired
US7370292B2 Method for incremental design reduction via iterative overapproximation and re-encoding strategies Physics 5 Expired

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