Patent ID: 11907628
Assignee: GRAPHCORE LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method of verifying a computer design, comprising the steps of:
receiving test outputs from one or more testing tool configured to test a computer component;
generating from the test outputs a set of formatted objects, each formatted object comprising a set of fields, each field associated with a field descriptor and holding test values;
supplying the formatted objects to a signoff module holding a plurality of signoff objects, each signoff object comprising a plurality of fields, each field having a field descriptor and holding a signoff expression;
comparing the test values in the fields of the formatted object with the signoff expressions in the signoff objects to detect if there is a match, and
in the case of a match associating a severity level of the matched signoff object with the formatted object.