Patents by Inventor Jason Coutu

Jason Coutu 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).

  • On-the-fly improvement of certainty of statistical estimates in statistical design, with corresponding visual feedback
    Patent number: 8589138
    Abstract: A system and method to analyze analog, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits. The system and method displays to a user characteristic values of a circuit and statistical uncertainty values of the characteristic values early in a sampling or characterization run of the circuit. The characteristic values and their statistical uncertainties are updated as the sampling or characterization run progresses. The user can halt the sampling or characterization run once a desired level of uncertainty is attained. The system can automatically halt the sampling or characterization run, once the statistical uncertainty lie within a pre-determined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Solido Design Automation Inc.
    Inventors: Trent Lorne McConaghy, Charles Cazabon, Kristopher Breen, Amit Gupta, Jeffrey Dyck, Jiandong Ge, David Callele, Shawn Rusaw, Joel Cooper, Anthony Arkles, Samer Sallam, Jason Coutu
  • Data-mining-based knowledge extraction and visualization of analog/mixed-signal/custom digital circuit design flow
    Patent number: 7707533
    Abstract: A system and method of generating a set of circuit simulation data, applying data mining to for knowledge extraction from the data, and graphically presenting the extracted knowledge in a format that is easy to digest to a designer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Solido Design Automation Inc.
    Inventors: Trent Lorne McConaghy, Amit Gupta, Kristopher Breen, Charles Cazabon, Shawn Rusaw, Jeffrey Dyck, Jason Coutu, Joel Cooper, Jiandong Ge, David Callele
  • System and method for determining and visualizing tradeoffs between yield and performance in electrical circuit designs
    Patent number: 7689952
    Abstract: A system that includes a candidate generator that generates candidate vectors having as components performance specifications of an electrical circuit design. The system also includes a performance estimator that generates performance vectors of the electrical circuit design, the performance vectors having as components performance values of the electrical circuit design. The candidate vectors and the performance vectors are input into a statistical estimator that calculates a statistical parameter, for example, yield, for each candidate vector in accordance with the performance vectors. The system further includes a filter that receives the candidate vectors and their respective statistical parameters, and outputs a filtered candidate vector with its corresponding filtered statistical parameter. A display system visually represents the filtered candidate vector and its corresponding filtered statistical parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Solido Design Automation Inc.
    Inventors: Trent Lorne McConaghy, Charles Cazabon, Jiandong Ge, Shawn Rusaw, Kristopher Breen, Jason Coutu
  • ON-THE-FLY IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAINTY OF STATISTICAL ESTIMATES IN STATISTICAL DESIGN, WITH CORRESPONDING VISUAL FEEDBACK
    Publication number: 20080300847
    Abstract: A system and method to analyze analog, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits. The system and method displays to a user characteristic values of a circuit and statistical uncertainty values of the characteristic values early in a sampling or characterization run of the circuit. The characteristic values and their statistical uncertainties are updated as the sampling or characterization run progresses. The user can halt the sampling or characterization run once a desired level of uncertainty is attained. The system can automatically halt the sampling or characterization run, once the statistical uncertainty lie within a pre-determined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: SOLIDO DESIGN AUTOMATION INC.
    Inventors: Trent Lorne MCCONAGHY, Charles CAZABON, Kristopher BREEN, Amit GUPTA, Jeff DYCK, Jiandong GE, David CALLELE, Shawn RUSAW, Joel COOPER, Anthony ARKLES, Samer SALLAM, Jason COUTU
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND VISUALIZING TRADEOFFS BETWEEN YIELD AND PERFORMANCE IN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT DESIGNS
    Publication number: 20080022239
    Abstract: A system and method for providing visualization of tradeoff between statistical parameters and performance for an electrical circuit design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: SOLIDO DESIGN AUTOMATION INC.
    Inventors: Trent McConaghy, Charles Cazabon, Jiandong Ge, Shawn Rusaw, Kristopher Breen, Jason Coutu
  • DATA-MINING-BASED KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION AND VISUALIZATION OF ANALOG/ MIXED-SIGNAL/ CUSTOM DIGITAL CIRCUIT DESIGN FLOW
    Publication number: 20080022232
    Abstract: A system and method of generating a set of circuit simulation data, applying data mining to for knowledge extraction from the data, and graphically presenting the extracted knowledge in a format that is easy to digest to a designer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: SOLIDO DESIGN AUTOMATION INC.
    Inventors: Trent McConaghy, Amit Gupta, Kristopher Breen, Charles Cazabon, Shawn Rusaw, Jeffrey Dyck, Jason Coutu, Joel Cooper, Jiandong Ge, David Callele