US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Oct. 20 for "Memory compaction to reduce emulation model size" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,446, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Memory compaction to reduce emulation model size" was invented by Baijayanta Ray (Bengaluru, India) and Alexander Rabinovitch (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing hardware emulation of a circuit design includes, in part, receiving data from a first memory of the circuit design. The first memory has a depth of D1 words each having a width of W1 bits. The method further include determining the number of segments N of each word of the first memory defined by operation floor (W1/W=N), wherein W is a width of a memory primitive ...