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IPC Subgroup
G06F 30/32

Circuit design at the digital level

Introduced: January 2020

Full Title

Computer-aided design [CAD] > Circuit design > Circuit design at the digital level

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
Subclass:
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING

5 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G06F 30/323 Translation or migration, e.g. logic to logic, hardware description language [HDL] translation or netlist translation
  • G06F 30/327 Logic synthesis; Behaviour synthesis, e.g. mapping logic, HDL to netlist, high-level language to RTL or netlist
  • G06F 30/333 Design for testability [DFT], e.g. scan chain or built-in self-test [BIST]
  • G06F 30/337 Design optimisation

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
  4. GOOGLE US 32,969
  5. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
  6. INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
  8. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
  9. APPLE US 21,891
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505