US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 9 for "IC chip with IC design modification detection" (New York, Virginia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,014, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"IC chip with IC design modification detection" was invented by Vivek Chickermane (Slaterville Springs, N.Y.), Christos Papameletis (Apex, N.C.), Brian Foutz (Charlottesville, Va.) and Krishna V. Chakravadhanula (Vestal, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) chip includes an intellectual property (IP) core that executes logical operations to perform a function. The IC chip also includes a scan chain array for testing the IP core, and a pseudo random pattern generator (PRPG) that provides a pseudo random pattern based on a...