US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Jan. 27 for "Fanout-based combinational loop emulation" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,364, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fanout-based combinational loop emulation" was invented by Ngai Ngai William Hung (San Jose, Calif.), Platon Beletsky (San Jose, Calif.), Dongxiang Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dhiraj Goswami (Wilsonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for performing combinational loop emulation. The methods and systems access a circuit design comprising a loop break element in a combinational loop path, where the loop break element comprises an input and an output. The methods and systems detect a change between the input of ...