Patent ID: 7516060
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of electronic circuit design, wherein the computer performing the following method steps, comprising: receiving a description of an electronic circuit design including a physical memory having a number of memory locations; determining a total number of memory operations that can occur in the physical memory during a predetermined period of time for simulating the electronic circuit design; initializing and storing a lookup table for modeling the physical memory in a storage memory of the computer during simulation of the electronic circuit design, the lookup table having a number of entries based on the total number of memory operations that can occur in the physical memory during the predetermined period of time; and simulating the electronic circuit design over the predetermined period of time using the description, the simulating including modeling the physical memory using the lookup table, wherein modeling the physical memory includes modeling a memory write operation to the physical memory, the modeling including: