Patents by Inventor Kevin L. Knapp

Kevin L. Knapp 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).

  • Simulation format creation system and method
    Patent number: 6370493
    Abstract: The present invention is a simulation test program that incorporates a formatter which asks the simulator what, if anything has changed, rather than querying for all of the pin states and strengths at each iteration, i.e. at each time stamp. If nothing has changed in the current time stamp, then the time stamp is increased until a change which has occurred in the states of the pins is detected. Then the particular change is evaluated. This drastically reduces the runtime, memory usage, and output file size of the simulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: LSI Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin L. Knapp, Kevin M. Laake