ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,852, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Preemptive stoppage of design clocks for processing blocking direct programming interface calls" was invented by Alexander Rabinovitch (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Baijayanta Ray (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preemptive stoppage of design clocks for processing blocking direct programming interface (DPI) calls is described. A blocking DPI call is received at a first field programable gate array (FPGA) of a plurality of FPGAs of an emulation system. The DPI call is received at a system clock cycle, K, of a system clock of the emulation system. Pri...