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Formal Verification Patents for Jasper Design Automation

Posted by Ken Cheung in EDA Tools on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Jasper Design Automation has been granted four U.S. patents. The four new patents are:

  • 7,437,694
    Identification of certain RTL load signals and values, with their contribution to the proof target. This targeted information enables high performance and fast comprehension for formal users.
  • 7,421,668
    Meaningful visualization of properties independent of a circuit design under various conditions, which helps users debug any errors in how the property is implemented in a requirements model.
  • 7,418,678
    This invention provides methods for simplifying counters in a circuit design while preserving important implications, enabling reliable verification of circuit designs that use counters.
  • 7,412,674
    Applies the concept of analysis regions to analyze the properties/requirements for a design. This generates a visual display that is available to the user, representing source code in the analysis region for properties in comparison to the maximum possible analysis region.

More info: Jasper Design Automation

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