Hirofumi Sakane

US Patent:

20050154577, Jul 14, 2005

Filed:

Oct 18, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/967814

Inventors:

Hirofumi Sakane - Newark DE, US
Levent Yakay - Elkton MD, US
Vishal Karna - Newark DE, US
Clement Leung - Reston VA, US
Guang Gao - Newark DE, US

International Classification:

G06F009/455

US Classification:

703027000

Abstract:

A method for emulating a logic circuit having at least one set of identical logic modules is disclosed. Each logic module in a set has logic elements and memory elements that store a module state of that logic module. The logic circuit is emulated by extracting a logic module from a set of identical logic modules, translating the extracted logic module for iterative representation of the module state of each of the logic modules with a single instance of the logic elements, and configuring a logic device with the translated logic module to emulate the logic circuit.