Selection of initial states for formal verification

JAG Seawright, R Sathianathan, CG Gauthron… - US Patent …, 2008 - Google Patents
(21) Appl. No.: 10/340,500(57) ABSTRACT (22) Filed: Jan. 10, 2003 (51) Int. Cl. A computer
is programmed to automatically select a state or G06F 7/50(2006.01) a set of States of a …

Reuse of learned information to simplify functional verification of a digital circuit

J Levitt, C Gauthron, C Barrett… - US Patent App. 10 …, 2007 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A computer is programmed in accordance with the invention to
automatically analyze a digital circuit, to check if the digital circuit can enter a target state …

Verification systems and methods

OA Petlin - US Patent App. 12/793,719, 2010 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0003. As hardware circuits increase in complexity, it is important that
integrated circuit designs are thoroughly tested for possible errors prior to fabrication …

Method of applying vertex based corrections to a semiconductor design

T Quaglio, M Millequant, C Tiphine - US Patent 10,534,255, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method of geometry corrections to properly transfer semiconductor
designs on a wafer or a mask in nanometer scale processes is provided. In contrast with …

Measure of analysis performed in property checking

JR Levitt, C Gauthron, CR Ho, PF Yeung… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
(52) US Cl......... grgrrr. 71.6/4 will not be violated within a distance N from an initial state (58)
Field of Classification Search................ 71.6/4-6 from which the analysis started. Therefore, in …

Accelerating high-level bounded model checking

M Ganai, A Gupta - US Patent 7,853,906, 2010 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT An accelerated High-Level Bounded Model Checking method that
efficiently extracts high-level information from the model, uses that extracted information to …

Debugging of counterexamples in formal verification

J Martensson - US Patent 8,103,999, 2012 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND This invention relates generally to formal verification of circuit designs, and
more particularly to debugging counter examples found in formal verification. As the …

Formal verification coverage metrics for circuit design properties

ZE Hanna, PAM Franzen, RM Weber, HA Farah… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A computer-implemented method and non-transitory com puter readable
medium for circuit design verification. Formal Verification is performed on a circuit design to …

Formal verification coverage metrics of covered events for circuit design properties

RK Ranjan, RM Weber, HA Farah, ZE Hanna - US Patent 9,158,874, 2015 - Google Patents
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Measure of analysis performed in property checking

JR Levitt, C Gauthron, CMR Ho, PF Yeung… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
The amount of analysis performed in determining the validity of a property of a digital circuit
is measured concurrent With performance of the analysis, and provided as an output When …