Patent ID: 8151231

Claim:
A computer system configured to communicatively couple an integrated circuit, the computer system comprising: a non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a waveform database, comprising: a first set of state data comprising a first set of entries, each of the first set of entries linked to a unique one of a set of flip-flops, the set of flip-flops comprising at least a portion of the integrated circuit; a second set of state data comprising a second set of entries, each of the second set of entries linked to the unique one of the set of flip-flops; the first set of state data representing a first state of the set of flip-flops corresponding to a first time and sampled from the set of flip-flops; the second set of state data representing a second state of the set of flip-flops corresponding to a second time and sampled from the set of flip-flops; such that the first and second sets of state data, when processed by a computing system, are operative to form, on a display device, a waveform display indicating time-varying states of the set of flip-flops.