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Computer aided design systems and methods with reduced memory utilization

  • US 7,062,727 B2
  • Filed: 08/25/2003
  • Issued: 06/13/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for analyzing a circuit design, comprising:

  • detecting access to at least one block of the circuit design;

    if the one block is not loaded within a circuit model of computer memory, determining whether loading the one block into the circuit model would exceed a predefined maximum utilization of the computer memory;

    if loading the one block into the circuit model would exceed the predefined maximum utilization, unloading one or more blocks from the circuit model and loading the one block into the circuit model;

    if loading the one block into the circuit model would not exceed the predefined maximum utilization, loading the one block into the circuit model.

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