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Programmable integrated circuit architecture

US6980029B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateDec 13, 2002
Grant dateDec 27, 2005
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Expiry dateFeb 19, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03K19/177
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A programmable logic device has a plurality of levels of programmable logic modules with fixed interconnections. The outputs of a level connect to inputs of the next level of programmable logic modules. The first level is fed from a bank of memory elements and the inputs to this bank of memory elements are derived from the last level. Crossbar switches are optionally inserted between a carefully chosen pairs of levels.

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