Patents by Inventor Howard E. Krohn

Howard E. Krohn has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4769817
    Abstract: A system for concurrent evaluation of the effect of multiple faults in a logic design being evaluated is particularly useful in the design of very large scale integrated circuits for developing a compact input test set which will permit locating a predetermined percentage of all theoretically possible fault conditions in the manufactured chips. The system includes logic evaluation hardware for simulating a given logic design and evaluating the complete operation thereof prior to committing the design to chip fabrication. In addition, and concurrently with the logic design evaluation, the system includes means for storing large number of predetermined fault conditions for each gate in the design, and for evaluating the "fault operation" for each fault condition for each gate, and comparing the corresponding results against the "good machine" operation, and storing the fault operation if different from the good operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Zycad Corporation
    Inventors: Howard E. Krohn, James L. Jasmin