Constraining traces in formal verification

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PATENT NO 8863049
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12961389

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The result of a property based formal verification analysis of a circuit design may include at least one counterexample for each property that is violated, which a user can use to debug the circuit design. To assist the user in this debugging process, a debugging tool applies one or more soft constraints to a counterexample trace that simplify the appearance of the trace when displayed as a waveform. The debugging tool thus facilitates a user's understanding of what parts of the counterexample trace are responsible for the property failure. Also described is a power analysis tool that increases the noise level of a trace for a circuit design in order to facilitate analysis of the circuit design's power characteristics.

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JASPER DESIGN AUTOMATION ABKVARNBERGSGATAN 2 GOTEBORG 41105

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Hanna, Ziyad Haifa, IL 12 84
Ip, Chung-Wah Norris Cupertino, US 27 247
Kranen, Kathryn Drews Menlo Park, US 8 67
Loh, Lawrence Milpitas, US 17 222
Lundgren, Lars Gothenburg, SE 11 31

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