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Method for circuit design

US8001501B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Rainer Dorsch · Reutlingen, DE
Marta Junginger · Altdorf, DE
Philipp Salz · Eppelheim, DE
Andreas Wagner · Eppelheim, DE
Gerhard Zilles

Key dates

Filing date	May 19, 2008
Grant date	Aug 16, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 15, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F30/333
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for designing a circuit. The method includes (i) providing a netlist of a design and (ii) dividing the netlist into N user logics, N being a positive integer. After said dividing the netlist is performed, the N user logics in N macro test wrappers are instantiated resulting in N instantiated logics. After said instantiating the N user logics is performed, the N instantiated logics are processed. After said processing is performed, a result of said processing is back-annotated to the netlist.

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