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 30/33 Design verification, e.g. functional simulation or model checking
- 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
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
- GOOGLE US 32,969
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
- INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
- APPLE US 21,891
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505