ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,177, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Waveform capture using multicycle path properties" was invented by Alexander Rabinovitch (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Baijayanta Ray (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a plurality of signals that have been selected for waveform capture, forming, based on a respective numbers of clock cycles for the plurality of signals to update, a first group of signals and a second group of signals, sampling the first group of signals according to a first sampling clock signal to produce a first set of sampled signals, and sampling the s...