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Method and system for providing an electronic system design with enhanced debugging capabilities
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Hardware/software co-debugging in a hardware description language
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Method and apparatus for circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design
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Method and system for debugging an electronic system using instrumentation circuitry and a logic analyzer
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Reducing clock skew in clock gating circuits
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Method and apparatus for the design and analysis of digital circuits with time division multiplexing
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Method and apparatus for invalid state detection
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Reducing clock skew in clock gating circuits
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Method and system for debugging using replicated logic and trigger logic
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Method and apparatus for circuit design and retiming
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Method and system for debugging using replicated logic
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Methods and apparatuses for non-equivalence checking of circuits with subspace
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Transforming a circuit having loop structure and tri-state element using replication
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Method and user interface for debugging an electronic system
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Method and apparatus for automated circuit design
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Hardware-based HDL code coverage and design analysis
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Method and apparatus for resetable memory and design approach for same
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Method and apparatus to estimate delay for logic circuit optimization
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Method and apparatus for placement and routing cells on integrated circuit chips
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Methods and apparatuses for checking equivalence of circuits
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Local naming for HDL compilation
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Verification of digital circuitry using range generators
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Method and apparatus for automated synthesis and optimization of datapaths
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Method and apparatus for parallel carry chains
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Method and apparatus for circuit design and synthesis
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