Patent Document ID: 20090112561
Application ID: 11930808
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of simulation processing in a data processing system, said method comprising: at a simulation client, simulating a design utilizing a hardware description language (HDL) simulation model by stimulating the HDL simulation model with a testcase, wherein the HDL simulation model includes instrumentation not forming a portion of the design that includes a count event counter for a count event in the design, and wherein the simulating includes counting occurrences of said count event in said count event counter to obtain a count event value; and establishing a threshold greater than 1 for an aggregate count event value for said count event counter; after completion of the testcase, determining if addition of the count event value to the aggregate count event value for the count event counter would cause the aggregate count event value to exceed the threshold; in response to a determination that the addition of the count event value to the aggregate count event value would not cause the aggregate count event value to exceed the threshold, recording the count event value in a testcase data storage area and accumulating the count event value in the aggregate count event value; and in response to a determination that the addition of the count event value to the aggregate count event value would not cause the aggregate count event value to exceed the threshold, discarding the count event value without recording the count event value in the testcase data storage area.