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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6557143 | Computer aided design system and computer-readable medium storing a program for designing clock gated logic circuits and gated clock circuit A computer aided design system and a method for clock gated logic circuits, a computer-readable medium for storing the same and a gated clock circuit are provided in which the clock skew is suppressed within a tolerable level without increasing the electr... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557144 | Netlist resynthesis program based on physical delay calculation A computer program that improves a netlist of logic nodes and physical placement for an IC. The program (a) identifies critical nodes based on delay information calculated from the physical placement. Then the program (b) selects a set of critical nodes a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557145 | Method for design optimization using logical and physical information A method for design optimization using logical and physical information is provided. In one embodiment, a method for design optimization using logical and physical information, includes receiving a behavioral description of an integrated circuit or a port... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557146 | Method for the comparison of electrical circuits Various phases of the circuit design are specified in different notations, whereby each notation is based on the same circuit. Since the notations arise successively during the circuit design, whereby the circuit design covers a considerable time span, it... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557147 | Method and apparatus for evaluating a circuit An apparatus and method for performance counter verification of an electronic circuit. The apparatus and method sends a transaction to a circuit under test causing counter values to change and retrieves these counter values from the circuit under test for... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557148 | Circuit analysis tool and recording medium having recorded program for making the circuit analysis tool function Provided is a circuit analysis tool having a function that enables the use of a high-accuracy simulator of SPICE2 or the like while reducing the time required for processing from the first simulation. The circuit analysis tool of the present invention dis... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557149 | Algorithm for finding vectors to stimulate all paths and arcs through an LVS gate A method and system for characterizing and validating the timing of LVS circuits. In particular, based upon an input of a topological description of an LVS circuit (e.g., a netlist) and other circuit parameters such as a clock specification or any mutex o... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557150 | Method of extracting timing characteristics of transistor circuits, storage medium storing timing characteristic library, LSI designing method, and gate extraction method A method of extracting timing characteristics from transistor circuit data of modularity design products (a module) such as a CPU core in which the extracted timing characteristics are used for the timing verification of a circuit including a module to be... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557151 | Distributed static timing analysis A method of distributed timing analysis for a network which has been partitioned into at least two partitions, with each partition being assigned to a separate timing analysis process which communicates with the other processes is provided. A depth first ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557152 | Method of designing signal distribution circuit and system for supporting the same In a method of designing a signal distribution circuit, a plurality of circuit patterns of buffer circuits and patterns of wiring lines are arranged and connected to have a tree structure. A total delay time from an input of the buffer circuit in the high... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557153 | Method and system for implementing a user interface for performing physical design operations on an integrated circuit netlist A method for implementing a user interface for performing physical design operations on an integrated circuit netlist. The method includes accessing vertical and horizontal dimensions of an area of an integrated circuit netlist and accessing a grid for po... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557154 | Printed circuit board design support system, printed circuit board design method and storage medium storing control program for same A PCB (Printed Circuit Board) design support system and a PCB design method reduce radiation of electromagnetic waves by optimizing layout of a substrate while following a conventional method for designing a PCB and maintaining a conventional structure. T... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557155 | Layout design method A method for designing routes for multilevel interconnections in a semiconductor device having at least a field effect transistor having a gate electrode, where the route extends between a diffusion region and the gate electrode. Each interconnection conn... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557156 | Method of configuring FPGAS for dynamically reconfigurable computing A method of configuring FPGAs for reconfigurable computing comprises a software environment for reconfigurable coprocessor applications. This environment comprises a standard high level language compiler (i.e. Java) and a set of libraries. The FPGA is con... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557157 | Method for designing complex digital and integrated circuits as well as a circuit structure The data flows of a system are allocated an arithmetic or logical function per function block (ALU-block), forming a RAM control. The ALU-blocks are specialized according to individual processing tasks of the data flows. The current status of the Ram addr... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557158 | Scheduling method for high-level synthesis and recording medium The present invention relates to a scheduling method and apparatus for high-level synthesis of a circuit which is represented by an operation description. The method includes calculating a probability for each of a plurality of nodes included in a control... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557159 | Method for preserving regularity during logic synthesis The present invention concerns a method for maintaining regularity in a netlist during logic synthesis. The method determines a global regularity for the netlist. The method determines a group of elements in the netlist having similar regularity signature... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557160 | Correlation of behavioral HDL signals A system and method for providing correlation of HDL signal names in the structural gate level description. In one embodiment, an HDL behavioral description of a circuit is processed by a correlation compiler to identify intermediate signals. The behavior... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557161 | Method for prototyping asynchronous circuits using synchronous devices One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates prototyping asynchronous circuits. The system first receives a design of an asynchronous circuit, which includes asynchronous cells. The system maps the asynchronous cells of the a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557162 | Method for high yield reticle formation A system and method for optimizing the production of lithography reticles involves identifying "proximity effect halos" around tight tolerance features in an IC layout data file. Features and defects outside the halos will not have a significant effect on... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557163 | Method of photolithographic critical dimension control by using reticle measurements in a control algorithm A method of implementing a new reticle for manufacturing semiconductors on a wafer which involves performing measurements on the reticle and assigning an initial exposure dose by using a predetermined algorithm. The exposure control system utilizes reticl... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557164 | System, method and article of manufacture for creating an object oriented component having multiple bidirectional ports for use in association with a java application or applet Method, system and article of manufacture for creating an object oriented component having multiple bidirectional ports for use with an object oriented based applet or application. The component's ports are all first initialized to a predetermined value a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557165 | OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING APPARATUS, OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING SUPPORTING APPARATUS, COMPONENT BUILDER APPARATUS, OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM, PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM FOR USE IN OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, COMPONENT STORAGE MEDIUM, AND OBJECT-BETWEEN-NETWORK DISPLAY METHOD As to an object-oriented programming, reuse of softwares is enhanced and running speed is improved. There are made up a data element list in which pointers to data storage areas of object A are arranged and a pointer element list in which pointers to poin... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557166 | Program correcting method and system Correction of a program which resides on a main storage and which is simultaneously callable by a plurality of command processors is performed by minimizing the stop time of a computer system without reloading a program. A particular command processor cal... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557167 | Apparatus and method for analyzing performance of a computer program An apparatus and method allow analyzing the performance of a computer program. The computer program is initially executed according to a predefined set of program execution conditions. As the computer program executes, information for each code segment is... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557168 | System and method for minimizing inter-application interference among static synchronized methods A system and method for isolating the execution of a plurality of applications. A plurality of monitors are provided for a plurality of applications to access a static synchronized method. The applications are enabled to call the static synchronized metho... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557169 | Method and system for changing the operating system of a workstation connected to a data transmission network A method and system of changing a current operating system to a new operating system in a workstation connected to a data transmission network interconnecting a plurality of workstations each having a storage device and a plurality of servers providing se... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557170 | Keyboard, mouse, video and power switching apparatus and method A KVM switch is disclosed having on screen display (OSD) circuitry coupled to a user workstation for providing a user a convenient interface by which to operate the KVM switch. First switching circuitry coupled to a plurality of computers and coupled to t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557171 | DIGITAL TV BROADCAST SENDING APPARATUS, DIGITAL TV BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND DIGITAL TV BROADCAST SENDING / RECEIVING SYSTEM WHICH FACILITATE PRESELECTION OF TV PROGRAMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR ACHIEVING A FUNCTION OF THE DIGITAL TV BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS A digital broadcast sending/receiving system includes a digital broadcast sending apparatus and a digital broadcast receiving apparatus. The digital broadcast sending apparatus multiplexes the audio data and video data of a broadcast program into the tran... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557172 | Communicating enhancement data in layers A system includes a content creator, a transmitting source, and a receiver platform for communicating enhancement data associated with audio/video content according to a protocol without layering capability. A receiver platform detects for a first announc... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6557173 | Portable electronic book viewer A portable electronic book viewer receives electronic text and graphic files, or electronic books, by connection to a television program delivery system. The electronic books may provided as compressed data that is transmitted with a video signal. The ele... | 04/29/2003 |
