Patents by Inventor Shahram Najm

Shahram Najm 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 graphically presenting an integrated circuit design
    Patent number: 6480985
    Abstract: Briefly, the present invention analyzes high-level IC description language code, such as VHDL and Verilog, of an integrated circuit (IC) design and generates graphical representations of the IC design based on the code analyzed. The graphical representations can include one or more of the following: 1) a block diagram of functional blocks; 2) a state diagram of a state machine; and 3) a flow chart of an operation al flow of the IC. Graphical representations provide more understandable representations of circuits described by the high-level IC description language code than the code itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Mentor Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Reynolds, Jacob L. Tredinnick, Shahram Najm, Michael E. J. Gilford, Gordon N. Walker, Mark W. P. Dane
  • Interface based design using a tabular paradigm
    Publication number: 20020129334
    Abstract: A method of creating an interfaced based representation of an electronic design is provided. Rows and columns are added to tables. These rows and columns represent signals and instances in the electronic design being represented by the description. The cells created by the table that results from the rows and column provide interconnect information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Mark W.P. Dane, Avtar Singh Bahra, Stephen L. Bold, Shahram Najm, Nitin Surti