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8439745 Electronic sweepstakes system providing multiple game presentations for revealing results from a single sweepstakes game  
A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed wherein a reveal request is initiated through a result reveal station by a person (user) who has previously made some purchase or donation and has been...
8443318 Method for modeling a magnetic tunnel junction with spin-polarized current writing  
The junction comprising a stack of at least two magnetic layers, a first layer, for example a soft magnetic layer with controllable magnetization, and a second layer, for example a hard magnetic...
8437988 Method and system for processing of threshold-crossing events  
Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media are provided for simulation of a model of a system by detecting a violation of a cross condition while iteratively refining a first solution...
8438519 Via-node-based electromigration rule-check methodology  
A method of method of manufacturing an integrated circuit. The method comprises performing an electromigration reliability rule-check for at least one of via node of an integrated circuit,...
8438001 Method and apparatus for improving noise analysis performance  
Method and apparatus for improving performance of noise analysis using a threshold based combination of noise estimation and simulation. The method includes classifying a circuit into one of four...
8438000 Dynamic generation of tests  
Generation of a test based on a test template comprising of branch instructions. The test template may be a layout test template, defining a set of possible control flows possibilities between...
8437870 System and method for implementing a virtual metrology advanced process control platform  
System and method for implementing a VM APC platform are described. In one embodiment, the VM APC system comprises a process tool for processing a plurality of wafers, a metrology tool for...
8438002 System and method of generating equation-level diagnostic error messages for use in circuit simulation  
A mechanism for providing equation-level diagnostic error messages for system models undergoing circuit simulations is discussed. The components in a model of a system being simulated are converted...
8433552 Circuit simulation method  
A exemplary aspect of the present invention is a simulation method for a semiconductor circuit that includes: a semiconductor resistor; a plurality of contacts arranged at regular intervals in a...
8434032 Method of generating an intellectual property block design kit, method of generating an integrated circuit design, and simulation system for the integrated circuit design  
The present application discloses a method of generating an intellectual property (IP) block design kit including an IP block circuit design and a system-level characteristics table for...
8434045 System and method of providing a memory hierarchy  
Some embodiments provide a method of providing configurable ICs to a user. The method provides the configurable IC and a set of behavioral descriptions to the user. The behavioral descriptions...
8428928 System and method for dynamically representing repetitive loads of a circuit during simulation  
A system for dynamically representing repetitive loads of a circuit during simulation includes a simulator module having one or more computer programs for 1) identifying one or more driver circuits...
8429594 Via design apparatus and via design method based on impedance calculations  
A via design apparatus includes a determination section that determines a value of a shape parameter indicating a shape of a via in a multilayer board. The via has a hole passing through the...
8429581 Method for verifying functional equivalence between a reference IC design and a modified version of the reference IC design  
A method for verifying functional equivalence between a reference integrated circuit (IC) design and a modified version of the reference IC design includes simulating a reference IC design using a...
8429592 N/P configurable LDMOS subcircuit macro model  
A process of operating a computer system to create a subcircuit model of an N/P configurable extended drain MOS transistor in which the subcircuit model includes an npn bipolar transistor and a pnp...
8423341 Method and system for constructing corner models for multiple performance targets  
A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for constructing corner models for multiple performance targets for circuit simulations. The method includes identifying N (N≧2) p...
8423879 Method and apparatus for test generation from hybrid diagrams with combined data flow and statechart notation  
A test generator and methods for generating tests from a hybrid diagram are provided. A hybrid diagram is a diagram that primarily uses one higher-level semantic notation with portions utilizing...
8423342 Simulation parameter extracting method of MOS transistor  
A simulation parameter extracting method of a MOS transistor according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes evaluating a measured value that includes a true gate-overlap...
8418094 Methods, systems, and computer program product for parallelizing tasks in processing an electronic circuit design  
Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing compact manufacturing model during various stages of electronic circuit designs. In some embodiments, the method...
8417504 Conversion of circuit description to a transaction model  
A system and method are described for converting a circuit description into transaction-based description at a higher level of abstraction. Thus, a designer can readily view a series of...
8418098 Advisory system for verifying sensitive circuits in chip-design  
A verification system for verifying an integrated circuit design is provided. The verification system includes a functional block finding module configured to identify potential sensitive circuits...
8417503 System and method for target-based compact modeling  
A method and structure for a computer model of a device has a performance parameter. The performance parameter includes a first bounded range and a second bounded range. The first bounded range has...
8417505 System and method for simulating a transmission gate network and a bi-directional connect module within an analog and mixed-signal circuit  
The present invention provides systems and methods for simulating an analog and mixed-signal circuit design comprising an analog circuit segment and a transmission gate network of a digital circuit...
8413085 Digital netlist partitioning system for faster circuit reverse-engineering  
Methods and systems are provided to reduce the complexity of sequential digital circuitry including cells of unknown function by grouping and defining like instance of combinational circuitry...
8412497 Predicting simultaneous switching output noise of an integrated circuit  
Predicting simultaneous switching output noise of an IC device is described. User input is obtained. The user input includes: an identification of an input/output bank of an integrated circuit die;...
8412496 Simulation system, method, and program  
A system, method and program to improve the processing speed of a simulation system. A processing system finds an entry point so that functional blocks cover a broad range. The processing system...
8412507 Testing the compliance of a design with the synchronization requirements of a memory model  
A method for compliance testing of a circuit design that includes at least one processor and a memory includes defining a memory model. The memory model includes synchronization mechanisms for...
8407036 Method and apparatus for modeling the modal properties of optical waveguides  
A method and apparatus models one or more electromagnetic field modes of a waveguide. The method includes calculating a first matrix having a plurality of elements and having a first bandwidth...
8407636 Clock domain crossing verification support  
A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores therein a verification support program that causes a computer to execute a procedure. The procedure includes first detecting a state change in a...
8402407 Semiconductor integrated circuit pattern verification method, photomask manufacturing method, semiconductor integrated circuit device manufacturing method, and program for implementing semiconductor integrated circuit pattern verification method  
A semiconductor integrated circuit pattern verification method includes executing simulation to obtain a simulation pattern to be formed on a substrate on the basis of a semiconductor integrated...
8401828 Methods and systems for analog object fetch in mixed-signal simulation  
Systems and methods for simulating and verifying an analog mixed signal design provide an analog mixed signal testbench configured to verify analog parameters of the design. The testbench can...
8402403 Verifying a register-transfer level design of an execution unit  
A mechanism is provided for verifying a register-transfer level design of an execution unit. A set of instruction records associated with a test case are generated and stored in a buffer. For each...
8402288 Apparatus and method for controlling voltage and frequency using multiple reference circuits  
A method and an apparatus for controlling voltage level and clock signal frequency supplied to a system. The method comprises: providing at least one reference circuit representative of a behavior...
8396696 Using multiple processors to simulate electronic circuits  
A circuit is simulated by using distributed computing to obtain a real solution. The circuit may be an entire integrated circuit, portion of an integrated circuit, or a circuit block. A circuit...
8397199 Versatile method and tool for simulation of aged transistors  
In an embodiment, an aging analysis tool may be configured to identify transistors that are expected to experience aging effects according to worst case stress vectors and/or designer identified...
8397190 Method for manipulating and repartitioning a hierarchical integrated circuit design  
A hardware description language representation of an original circuit block containing one or more hierarchies may be obtained. Some, or all of the hierarchies may be dissolved to access each...
8396701 Software systems for development, control, programming, simulation, and emulation of fixed and reconfigurable lab-on-a-chip devices  
A software system for development, control, programming, simulation, and emulation of fixed, software-configurable, software-reconfigurable, and software-controlled Lab-on-a-chip (“LoC”) dev...
8390234 Method for the automated startup and/or for the automated operation of controllers of an electrical drive system with vibrational mechanics as well as an associated device  
A method for automated startup and/or for automated operation of controllers of an electrical drive system with vibrational mechanics with the following steps: (a) determining a preliminary value...
8392009 Advanced process control with novel sampling policy  
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor manufacturing method. The method includes performing a first process to a first plurality of semiconductor wafers; determining a sampling rate to the...
8392859 Method and system for debugging using replicated logic and trigger logic  
A method and system for debugging using replicated logic and trigger logic is described. A representation of a circuit is compiled. One or more signals are selected for triggering and trigger logic...
8392157 System synthesis to meet exergy loss target value  
In a method of synthesizing components to design a system meeting an exergy loss target value, one or more candidate sets of components are synthesized and an exergy loss value for each of the one...
8386229 Integrated circuit package component and ball grid array simulation model  
A simulation model is provided for flip-chip BGAs to help engineers determine the effects of IC package components. The simulation model includes a bump model, a package planes model, a package...
8386990 Unique identifier derived from an intrinsic characteristic of an integrated circuit  
An embodiment of the invention relates to an integrated circuit such as an FPGA wherein a stable unique identifier is produced by reading an intrinsic characteristic of the IC such as a physically...
8386974 Accelerating coverage convergence using symbolic properties  
In a method for increasing coverage convergence during verification of a design for an integrated circuit, multiple simulation runs can be performed. Symbolic variables and symbolic expressions can...
8380477 System of testing engineered safety feature instruments  
The present invention certifies control modules of engineered safety feature instruments for a power plant automatically. The control modules can be tested before storing or operating. The test is...
8380476 Modeling of ferroelectric capacitors to include local statistical variations of ferroelectric properties  
Simulation of an electronic circuit including a model of a ferroelectric capacitor. The model of the ferroelectric capacitor includes a multi-domain ferroelectric capacitor, in which each of the...
8380480 Computer product, analysis support apparatus, and analysis support method  
A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program causing a computer to execute calculating, using respective standard deviations of first delay distributions of delay...
8380478 Statistical evaluation of circuit robustness separating local and global variation  
Semiconductor fabrication using statistical analysis (400) to determine the robustness or reliability of a fabricated integrated circuit module given global and local variations of operating...
8380481 Conveying data from a hardware device to a circuit simulation  
A system and method is described for connecting a logic circuit simulation to a hardware peripheral that includes a computer running software for communicating data to and from the hardware...
8380656 Technique for fast power estimation using probabilistic analysis of combinational logic  
A method for computing power consumption includes querying a software database for a key node and a gate comprising an input port, connected to the key node, and an output port. The software...