Patent ID: 7143018

Claim:
In a batch simulation farm environment that facilitates computer-aided simulation of hardware design, a method for minimizing redundancy in collected harvest event testcases, wherein said batch simulation farm includes a harvest testcase bucket that collects testcases for a simulation model from at least one simulation client, said batch simulation farm further including an instrumentation server that includes a network harvest hit table which records harvest events that have been triggered during testcase simulation of said simulation model, said method comprising: delivering a copy of said network harvest hit table as a local harvest hit table to said at least one simulation client; executing a testcase on said simulation model by one of said at least one simulation client; examining harvest event flags within said simulation model to identify harvest events triggered during said testcase execution, wherein triggering of said harvest events results in setting corresponding harvest event flags; comparing the setting of the harvest event flags with said local harvest hit table to determine whether any preliminarily non-redundant harvest events have occurred; and responsive to determining that preliminarily non-redundant harvest events have occurred, delivering a copy of said testcase to said harvest testcase bucket.