A method for fabricating an integrated circuit includes the steps of: (a) describing the functionality of an integrated circuit in terms of a behavioral hardware description language, where the hardware description language describes behavior which can be extracted as a state machine; (b) extracting...http://www.google.com/patents/US5537580?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5537580 - Integrated circuit fabrication using state machine extraction from behavioral hardware description language
