Patents by Inventor Claire Nauts

Claire Nauts 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: 8418094
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing compact manufacturing model during various stages of electronic circuit designs. In some embodiments, the method loads the full design database information on the master; distributes the tasks to be processed in parallel; loads a full design on a master; spawns a plurality of slave sessions; sends to at least one slave a nutshell representation of the electronic circuit design; identifies a task to perform in parallel and sends the task to be performed in parallel; and receives execution results or processing results from some of the plurality of slaves and updates one or more databases to incorporate the execution or processing results. In some embodiments, the method allows speeding up the applications without major rewrite without a need for design partition, and without memory penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnaud Pedenon, Philippe Lenoble, Claire Nauts
  • Publication number: 20120089954
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing compact manufacturing model during various stages of electronic circuit designs. In some embodiments, the method loads the full design database information on the master; distributes the tasks to be processed in parallel; loads a full design on a master; spawns a plurality of slave sessions; sends to at least one slave a nutshell representation of the electronic circuit design; identifies a task to perform in parallel and sends the task to be performed in parallel; and receives execution results or processing results from some of the plurality of slaves and updates one or more databases to incorporate the execution or processing results. In some embodiments, the method allows speeding up the applications without major rewrite without a need for design partition, and without memory penalty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Arnaud Pedenon, Philippe Lenoble, Claire Nauts
  • Patent number: 8099693
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing compact manufacturing model during various stages of electronic circuit designs. In some embodiments, the method loads the full design database information on the master; distributes the tasks to be processed in parallel; loads a full design on a master; spawns a plurality of slave sessions; sends to at least one slave a nutshell representation of the electronic circuit design; identifies a task to perform in parallel and sends the task to be performed in parallel; and receives execution results or processing results from some of the plurality of slaves and updates one or more databases to incorporate the execution or processing results. In some embodiments, the method allows speeding up the applications without major rewrite without a need for design partition, and without memory penalty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnaud Pedenon, Philippe Lenoble, Claire Nauts
  • Publication number: 20100115478
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program product for implementing compact manufacturing model during various stages of electronic circuit designs. In some embodiments, the method loads the full design database information on the master; distributes the tasks to be processed in parallel; loads a full design on a master; spawns a plurality of slave sessions; sends to at least one slave a nutshell representation of the electronic circuit design; identifies a task to perform in parallel and sends the task to be performed in parallel; and receives execution results or processing results from some of the plurality of slaves and updates one or more databases to incorporate the execution or processing results. In some embodiments, the method allows speeding up the applications without major rewrite without a need for design partition, and without memory penalty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Arnaud Pedenon, Philippe Lenoble, Claire Nauts
  • Patent number: 6519743
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for finding the best match from a target library of simple logic cells for a complex logic circuit conception. The inventive method is flexible and can be adapted to several cost functions or criteria. The inventive method finds the best children nodes for a match of simple gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR). The method allows one to improve the overall area of the final design while respecting the time constrains. It also allows one to smartly speed up the tiler process as this process does not have to investigate exhaustive lists of possible children. Two preferred embodiments are disclosed. One such embodiment is designed to improve slack time and the other is designed to minimize required area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Claire Nauts, Arnold Ginetti