US Patent Issued to Synopsys on June 24 for "Non-functional loopback-paths removal from IO-pads using logic replication" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,157, issued on June 24, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Non-functional loopback-paths removal from IO-pads using logic replication" was invented by Florent Sebastien Marc Emmanuel Claude Duru (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Gilles Pierre Remond (Antony, France), Olivier Rene Coudert (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mikhail Bershteyn (Forest Hills, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a configuration to remove false paths from an emulation netlist in a chip design under test (DUT). The configuration identifies, in an original netlist, an original subgraph of original logic gates, a subset of inputs (TI), and a subset of ou...