Inventor
MCELVAIN KENNETH S
US105 patents
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SYNPLICITY INC
29 patentsUS6438735B1Aug 20, 2002
Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits
SYNPLICITY INC118 citations99
US7366997B1Apr 29, 2008
Methods and apparatuses for thermal analysis based circuit design
SYNPLICITY INC288 citations98
US7200822B1Apr 3, 2007
Circuits with modular redundancy and methods and apparatuses for their automated synthesis
SYNPLICITY INC59 citations98
US7093204B2Aug 15, 2006
Method and apparatus for automated synthesis of multi-channel circuits
SYNPLICITY INC75 citations98
US6519754B1Feb 11, 2003
Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits
SYNPLICITY INC81 citations98
US6449762B1Sep 10, 2002
Maintaining correspondence between text and schematic representations of circuit elements in circuit synthesis
SYNPLICITY INC135 citations98
US7240303B1Jul 3, 2007
Hardware/software co-debugging in a hardware description language
SYNPLICITY INC132 citations97
US7278120B2Oct 2, 2007
Methods and apparatuses for transient analyses of circuits
SYNPLICITY INC45 citations96
US6668364B2Dec 23, 2003
Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits
SYNPLICITY INC63 citations96
US6389586B1May 14, 2002
Method and apparatus for invalid state detection
SYNPLICITY INC68 citations96
US6182268B1Jan 30, 2001
Methods and apparatuses for automatic extraction of finite state machines
SYNPLICITY INC80 citations96
US7237214B1Jun 26, 2007
Method and apparatus for circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design
SYNPLICITY INC37 citations95
US6711729B1Mar 23, 2004
Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits using automatic reallocation techniques
SYNPLICITY INC109 citations95
US7178118B2Feb 13, 2007
Method and apparatus for automated circuit design
SYNPLICITY INC41 citations94
US7275233B2Sep 25, 2007
Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits
SYNPLICITY INC17 citations93
US7082582B1Jul 25, 2006
Reducing clock skew in clock gating circuits
SYNPLICITY INC19 citations93
US7010769B2Mar 7, 2006
Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits
SYNPLICITY INC21 citations93
US7007254B1Feb 28, 2006
Method and apparatus for the design and analysis of digital circuits with time division multiplexing
SYNPLICITY INC34 citations93
US6735743B1May 11, 2004
Method and apparatus for invalid state detection
SYNPLICITY INC30 citations93
US6643829B1Nov 4, 2003
Reducing clock skew in clock gating circuits
SYNPLICITY INC35 citations93
US6904576B2Jun 7, 2005
Method and system for debugging using replicated logic
SYNPLICITY INC35 citations92
US6687882B1Feb 3, 2004
Methods and apparatuses for non-equivalence checking of circuits with subspace
SYNPLICITY INC44 citations92
US6618835B1Sep 9, 2003
Transforming a circuit having loop structure and tri-state element using replication
SYNPLICITY INC28 citations92
US7251800B2Jul 31, 2007
Method and apparatus for automated circuit design
SYNPLICITY INC45 citations90
US6836420B1Dec 28, 2004
Method and apparatus for resetable memory and design approach for same
SYNPLICITY INC13 citations90
US6973632B1Dec 6, 2005
Method and apparatus to estimate delay for logic circuit optimization
SYNPLICITY INC39 citations88
US7350173B1Mar 25, 2008
Method and apparatus for placement and routing cells on integrated circuit chips
SYNPLICITY INC35 citations87
US6691286B1Feb 10, 2004
Methods and apparatuses for checking equivalence of circuits
SYNPLICITY INC29 citations86
US7117463B2Oct 3, 2006
Verification of digital circuitry using range generators
SYNPLICITY INC15 citations83
SYNOPSYS INC
15 patentsUS7827510B1Nov 2, 2010
Enhanced hardware debugging with embedded FPGAS in a hardware description language
SYNOPSYS INC88 citations97
US7739624B2Jun 15, 2010
Methods and apparatuses to generate a shielding mesh for integrated circuit devices
SYNOPSYS INC27 citations96
US7943436B2May 17, 2011
Integrated circuit devices and methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuit devices
SYNOPSYS INC37 citations93
US8701068B2Apr 15, 2014
Interconnection device in a multi-layer shielding mesh
SYNOPSYS INC13 citations92
US8386979B2Feb 26, 2013
Method and apparatus to design an interconnection device in a multi-layer shielding mesh
SYNOPSYS INC11 citations92
US7941779B2May 10, 2011
Methods and apparatuses for thermal analysis based circuit design
SYNOPSYS INC17 citations92
US7627844B2Dec 1, 2009
Methods and apparatuses for transient analyses of circuits
SYNOPSYS INC26 citations92
US7594211B1Sep 22, 2009
Methods and apparatuses for reset conditioning in integrated circuits
SYNOPSYS INC33 citations92
US7665046B2Feb 16, 2010
Method and system for debugging using replicated logic and trigger logic
SYNOPSYS INC11 citations84
US7454732B2Nov 18, 2008
Methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuits (ICs) with optimization at register transfer level (RTL) amongst multiple ICs
SYNOPSYS INC10 citations84
US9038013B2May 19, 2015
Circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design
SYNOPSYS INC4 citations83
US7908574B2Mar 15, 2011
Techniques for use with automated circuit design and simulations
SYNOPSYS INC11 citations83
US7904859B2Mar 8, 2011
Method and apparatus for determining a phase relationship between asynchronous clock signals
SYNOPSYS INC7 citations83
US7844930B2Nov 30, 2010
Method and apparatus for circuit partitioning and trace assignment in circuit design
SYNOPSYS INC9 citations83
US10268797B2Apr 23, 2019
Architectural physical synthesis
SYNOPSYS INC7 citations82
MCELVAIN KENNETH S
5 patentsUS8881086B2Nov 4, 2014
Integrated circuit devices and methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuit devices
MCELVAIN KENNETH S15 citations92
US8729922B2May 20, 2014
Licensing programmable hardware sub-designs using a host-identifier
MCELVAIN KENNETH S5 citations84
US8286118B2Oct 9, 2012
Integrated circuit devices and methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuit devices
MCELVAIN KENNETH S6 citations84
US8171441B2May 1, 2012
Integrated circuit devices and methods and apparatuses for designing integrated circuit devices
MCELVAIN KENNETH S7 citations83
US8074197B2Dec 6, 2011
Shielding mesh design for an integrated circuit device
MCELVAIN KENNETH S7 citations83
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