Behavioral-synthesis electronic design automation tool business-to-business application service provider

US6782511B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Elof Frank · Sunnyvale, US
• Bernd Braune · Unterhaching, DE
• David Knapp · Sunnyvale, US
• Pradeep Fernandes · San Jose, US
• Hans-Joachim Schmidt · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 25, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 24, 2004
• Expiry date: May 25, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2119/12
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A business-to-business application service provider includes an Internet website and webserver with EDA-on-demand solutions for system-on-a-chip designers. Such website allows electronic designs in hardware description language to be uploaded into a front-end EDA design environment. A behavioral model simulation tool hosted privately on the webserver tests and validates the design. Such tool executes only in the secure environment of the business-to-business application service provider. The validated solution is then downloaded back over the Internet for a pay-per-use fee to the customer, and in a form ready to be placed and routed by a back-end EDA tool. Such validated design solutions are also downloadable to others in exchange for other designs, or available in technology libraries. The intellectual property created can be re-used, sold, shared, exchanged, and otherwise distributed efficiently and easily from a central for-profit clearinghouse.