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- Patent Title: Electronic devices generating verification vector for verifying semiconductor circuit and methods of operating the same
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Application No.: US16915786Application Date: 2020-06-29
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Publication No.: US11669773B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Seungju Kim , Hyojin Choi , In Huh , Jeonghoon Ko , Changwook Jeong , Younsik Park , Joonwan Chai
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Myers Bigel, P.A.
- Priority: KR 20190130822 2019.10.21
- Main IPC: G06N20/00
- IPC: G06N20/00 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F30/3308 ; G06F18/214

Abstract:
An electronic device configured to generate a verification vector for verifying a semiconductor circuit including a first circuit block and a second circuit block includes a duplicate command eliminator configured to receive a first input vector including a plurality of commands and to provide a first converted vector, in which ones of the plurality of commands that generate the same state transition are changed into idle commands, based on a state transition of the first circuit block obtained by performing a simulation operation on the first input vector, a reduced vector generator configured to provide a first reduced vector in which a number of repetitions of the idle commands included in the first converted vector is reduced, and a verification vector generator configured to output the first reduced vector having a coverage that coincides with a target coverage among a plurality of first reduced vectors as a first verification vector.
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