Patent ID: 8065641

Claim:
A computer implemented method in a data processing system for generating manufacturing test rules, the computer implemented method comprising: generating, by the data processing system, stimuli for a design automatically by a stimuli generator, wherein the stimuli generator takes into account certain limitations of the design when automatically generating the stimuli; simulating, by the data processing system, the design by a testbench, wherein the testbench uses the stimuli automatically generated by the stimuli generator; generating, by the data processing system, a simulation log for the design by the testbench; processing, by the data processing system, the simulation log by a simulation log processor to form a processed simulation log; generating, by the data processing system, a hardware description language (HDL) representation of the design by the simulation log processor using the processed simulation log; generating, by the data processing system, a gate-level version of the design by a synthesis tool using the HDL representation of the design; processing, by the data processing system, the gate-level version of the design by the synthesis tool to make any necessary modifications; and outputting, by the data processing system, the gate-level version of the design as a manufacturing test rule for the design.