PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15951869
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["716", "106000"]

Abstract:
A method, apparatus and product for hard error simulation and usage thereof. The method comprises obtaining a design of a circuit, which comprises one or more monitoring signals for identifying errors and one or more critical nodes; obtaining a trace of a run of a test of the circuit; and obtaining a hard error fault on a node. The method comprises determining a hard-error test coverage for the hard error fault, wherein the hard-error test coverage is indicative of whether or not the one or more monitoring signals identifies the hard error fault during an execution of the test, and wherein said determining comprises: simulating the execution of the circuit together with the hard error fault and noting whether or not any one or more of the one or more monitoring signals has detected the hard error fault. An indication of the hard-error test coverage may be outputted.

Claim (Index 7):
The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein said simulating execution comprises: determining a modified design simulating the hard error fault, wherein the design comprises a modeling of a first function defining a value of the signal in each cycle, wherein the modified design comprises a modeling of a second function defining a value of the signal in each cycle, wherein the second function is different than the first function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48438
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14601312', '15045448', '10961760', '12843068', '12404583']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3631870923557631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805239498755275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3749207781077396
- Mean Citation Score: 206.414714
- Max Citation Score: 238.92638
- Similarity Product: 170.76775770448089

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test