Patents by Inventor Benjamin Meng-Ching Chen

Benjamin Meng-Ching Chen 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: 10984161
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for use in a formal verification of an electronic design. Embodiments may include receiving a reference model including a software specification, an implementation model at a register transfer level, and a property that analyzes equivalence between the reference model and the implementation model. The method may further include generating one or more case split hints based upon the reference model, that may be used to decompose the design state space into smaller partitions and performing an abstraction operation on a portion of design logic associated with one or more partitions in order to eliminate design elements that are irrelevant to a particular property. Embodiments may also include performing model checking on the abstract models to determine their accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajdeep Mukherjee, Ravi Prakash, Benjamin Meng-Ching Chen, Habeeb Farah, Ziyad Hanna
  • Patent number: 10983758
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for use in a formal verification of an electronic design. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, a reference model including a software specification and an implementation model at a register transfer level. Embodiments may also include generating one or more invariants based upon, at least in part, the reference model, wherein generating one or more invariants includes applying a semantic analysis. Embodiments may further include automatically generating at least one case splitting candidate based upon, at least in part, the one or more generated invariants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajdeep Mukherjee, Benjamin Meng-Ching Chen, Habeeb Farah, Ziyad Hanna
  • Patent number: 10789404
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for use in a formal verification of an electronic design. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, a specification model associated with an electronic design and generating, using a parser, an intermediate representation based upon, at least in part, the specification model. Embodiments may also include applying a machine generated semantic preserving program transformation to the intermediate representation to create a semantically transformed specification model and synthesizing the semantically transformed specification model to generate a formal verification model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajdeep Mukherjee, Benjamin Meng-Ching Chen, Habeeb Farah, Ziyad Hanna