Patent ID: 7085703

Claim:
A method for providing centralized access to instrumentation count event information generated by simulation testing of hardware description language (HDL) simulation models, wherein said simulation testing is performed within a batch simulation farm by multiple simulation clients communicating with an instrumentation server, said method comprising: for each of one or more of said HDL simulation models, generating an entity list that includes an identifier for each design entity within the simulation model that has at least one instantiated instrumentation count event; associating each of the design entity identifiers within said entity list with identifiers for one or more of said HDL simulation models in which the design entity is instantiated such that instrumentation count event information is accessible using design entity information; simulating said HDL simulation model within a simulation client; delivering an aggregate count event packet from said simulation client to said instrumentation server, wherein said aggregate count event packet includes count event data recorded during said simulation; and within said instrumentation server, storing said count event data within cumulative count data storage files.