Patents by Inventor John H. Westermann

John H. Westermann 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: 7945433
    Abstract: A system and method for design verification and, more particularly, a hardware simulation accelerator design and method that exploits a parallel structure of user models to support a large user model size. The method includes a computer including N number of logic evaluation units (LEUs) that share a common pool of instruction memory (IM). The computer infrastructure is operable to: partition a number of parallel operations in a netlist; and send a same instruction stream of the partitioned number of parallel operations to N number of LEUs from a single IM. The system is a hardware simulation accelerator having a computer infrastructure operable to provide a stream of instructions to multiple LEUs from a single IM. The multiple LEUs are clustered together with multiple IMs such that each LEU is configured to use instructions from any of the multiple IMs thereby allowing a same instruction stream to drive the multiple LEUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel R. Crouse, II, Gernot E. Guenther, Viktor Gyuris, Harrell Hoffman, Kevin A. Pasnik, Thomas J. Tryt, John H. Westermann, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7865346
    Abstract: A hardware simulation accelerator to simulate logic designs, a method to encode instructions for use in the hardware simulation accelerator, and a computer program product having code of the method by which the hardware simulation accelerator can read encoded instructions to simulate the logic design, and computer program product of the encoded instructions to simulate a logic design in a hardware accelerator. Each instruction has one of a plurality of opcodes, the opcodes select which of the hardware resources of the hardware simulation accelerator will implement and use the values set forth in other programmable bits of the encoded instruction. The encoded instruction may be a routing and/or a gate evaluation instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gernot E. Günther, Viktor Gyuris, Kevin Anthony Pasnik, Thomas John Tryt, John H. Westermann, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20080270748
    Abstract: A system and method for design verification and, more particularly, a hardware simulation accelerator design and method that exploits a parallel structure of user models to support a large user model size. The method includes a computer including N number of logic evaluation units (LEUs) that share a common pool of instruction memory (IM). The computer infrastructure is operable to: partition a number of parallel operations in a netlist; and send a same instruction stream of the partitioned number of parallel operations to N number of LEUs from a single IM. The system is a hardware simulation accelerator having a computer infrastructure operable to provide a stream of instructions to multiple LEUs from a single IM. The multiple LEUs are clustered together with multiple IMs such that each LEU is configured to use instructions from any of the multiple IMs thereby allowing a same instruction stream to drive the multiple LEUs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel R. CROUSE, Gernot E. GUENTHER, Viktor GYURIS, Harrell HOFFMAN, Kevin A. PASNIK, Thomas J. TRYT, John H. WESTERMANN
  • Publication number: 20080243462
    Abstract: A hardware simulation accelerator to simulate logic designs, a method to encode instructions for use in the hardware simulation accelerator, and a computer program product having code of the method by which the hardware simulation accelerator can read encoded instructions to simulate the logic design, and computer program product of the encoded instructions to simulate a logic design in a hardware accelerator. Each instruction has one of a plurality of opcodes, the opcodes select which of the hardware resources of the hardware simulation accelerator will implement and use the values set forth in other programmable bits of the encoded instruction. The encoded instruction may be a routing and/or a gate evaluation instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gernot E. Guenther, Viktor Gyuris, Kevin Anthony Pasnik, Thomas John Tryt, John H. Westermann
  • Publication number: 20080127006
    Abstract: Method, system, and program product for expanding the effective capacity of embedded memory by storing data in a compressed form and reading the data out with subsequent data decompression, including adaptive decompression and data conversion. The system and method for compression and decompression of HDL code between HDL code storage and HDL code processing for simulation of a device or system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gernot E. Guenther, Viktor S. Gyuris, Thomas J. Tryt, John H. Westermann