Patents by Inventor Curtis K. Shrote

Curtis K. Shrote 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).

  • Method and apparatus for generating instruction/data streams employed to verify hardware implementations of integrated circuit designs
    Patent number: 5774358
    Abstract: A system (200) for generating an instruction/data stream (214) used to verify a hardware implementation of an integrated circuit design with respect to a higher level implementation. Upon execution, the instruction/data stream (214) causes boundary conditions, system events, interrupts, and exceptions of interest to be verified within the hardware implementation. In constructing the instruction/data stream (214), the system (200) receives (102) a plurality of templates (216) that describe partial behaviors of the integrated circuit design corresponding particular instructions. The system (200) then receives (104) a plurality of register models describe an operation of registers within the integrated circuit design. The system (200) then receives (106) a plurality of exception events that correspond to a potentially problematic operation of the hardware implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis K. Shrote