APPROXIMATE FUNCTIONAL MATCHING IN ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

Patent №

US 8,453,084

Granted

2013-05-28

Filed 2008

Owner

SYNOPSYS, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12204777

Methods and apparatuses for approximate functional matching are described including identifying functionally similar subsets of an integrated circuit design or software program, distinguishing control inputs of the subsets from data inputs, and assigning combinations of logic values to the input control signals to capture co-factors for functional matching.

AI hardwareG06F 8/65G05B 19/054G06F 30/327

AI classification

AI hardware0.95
Machine learning0.08
Natural language0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

SYNOPSYS, INC.

assignment · 219890197

Assignors

MARKOV, IGOR L., MCELVAIN, KENNETH S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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