ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,179, issued on May 20, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Detecting simulation, emulation and prototyping issues using static analysis tools" was invented by Mohan Mangal (Fremont, Calif.), Rohit Kumar Ohlayan (New Delhi), Himanshu Kathuria (Fremont, Calif.) and Jaskaran Singh Ajimal (Ludhiana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a specification of a circuit design for performing simulation of the circuit design. The specification includes one or more prototyping statements. A prototyping statement is processed by simulation of the circuit design. The system generates a netlist graph based on the s...