US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Dec. 23 for "Event-driven tracing in static timing analysis of digital circuit designs" (California, Florida, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,271, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Event-driven tracing in static timing analysis of digital circuit designs" was invented by Jacob Philip Thomas (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Gross (Rutland, Mass.), Norbert Heindl (Richardson, Texas) and Clayton McDonald (Ponce Inlet, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving a circuit design including circuit stages; deriving initial logic conditions for nets in a fanout cone from an input port in accordance with a primordial event; initializing a priority queue of logic transition events with the primordial event; determining a trigger eve...