US 2022/0067254 A1 · DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION PROCESSING WITH SYNCHRONIZATION PROTOCOL

Abstract

This application discloses a distributed computing system implementing multiple participating processes to separately compile different portions of a circuit design describing an electronic device over multiple phases. The distributed computing system can implement a management process to utilize a synchronization protocol to identify operational states of the participating processes during compilation of the different portions of the circuit design, maintain the operational states of the participating processes, and separately determine when the participating processes have completed compilation of the circuit design portions for one of the phases based on the operational states of the participating processes. The management process can determine to have the participating processes synchronously transition to another one of the phases or that the participating processes have compiled the circuit design into a compiled design corresponding to the circuit design, and deploy the compiled design in an emulator for verification of a functionality of the electronic device.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

separately compiling, by a distributed computing system over multiple phases, different portions of a circuit design describing an electronic device with different participating processes implemented in the distributed computing system;
utilizing, by a management process implemented in the distributed computing system, a synchronization protocol to identify operational states of the participating processes during compilation of the different portions of the circuit design;
when the operational states of the participating processes indicate the compilation has been completed for one of the phases, determining, by the distributed computing system, to have the participating processes synchronously transition to another one of the phases or that the participating processes have compiled the circuit design into a compiled design corresponding to the circuit design;
and
deploying, by the distributed computing system, the compiled design corresponding to the circuit design in an emulator for verification of a functionality of the electronic device.

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A system comprising:

a memory system configured to store computer-executable instructions;
and
a distributed computing system, in response to execution of the computer-executable instructions, is configured to:
separately execute, over multiple phases, different portions of a software application with different participating processes implemented in the distributed computing system;
utilize, by a management process implemented in the distributed computing system, a synchronization protocol to identify operational states of the participating processes during execution of the different portions of the software application;
and
synchronously transitioning execution of the different portions of the software application between the phases after the operational states of the participating processes indicate the execution has been completed for each the phases.

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An apparatus comprising at least one computer-readable memory device storing instructions configured to cause one or more processing devices in a distributed computing system to perform operations comprising:

separately compiling, over multiple phases, different portions of a circuit design describing an electronic device with different participating processes implemented in the distributed computing system;
utilizing, by a management process, a synchronization protocol to identify operational states of the participating processes during compilation of the different portions of the circuit design;
when the operational states of the participating processes indicate the compilation has been completed for one of the phases, determining to have the participating processes synchronously transition to another one of the phases or that the participating processes have compiled the circuit design into a compiled design corresponding to the circuit design;
and
deploying the compiled design corresponding to the circuit design in an emulator for verification of a functionality of the electronic device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Distributed application processing with synchronization protocol

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Distributed application processing with synchronization protocol

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Abstract

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