ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,732, issued on May 20, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Trace buffer data management for emulation systems" was invented by Chia-Wei Liang (Saratoga, Calif.), Wenxin Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Meng-Tse Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan), Goichiro Ono (San Jose, Calif.), Zhe Zhao (Shanghai), Yang Song (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yu Sui (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yuchen Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emulation system traverses trace buffers to read data captured from a design under test (DUT). The emulation system receives a request to read at least a portion of DUT data. The emulation system reads a header of the ...