Reconfigurable logic structures

US7755389B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Agate Logic, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Colin N. Murphy · Belmont, US
• Narbeh Derhacobian · Belmont, US
• Louis Charles Kordus, II · Sunnyvale, US
• Antonietta Oliva · Sausalito, US
• Vei-Han Chan · San Jose, US
• Thomas E. Stewart · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 7, 2009
• Grant date: Jul 13, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 7, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H03K19/1778
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Reconfigurable electronic structures and circuits using programmable, non-volatile memory elements. The programmable, non-volatile memory elements may perform the functions of storage and/or a switch to produce components such as crossbars, multiplexers, look-up tables (LUTs) and other logic circuits used in programmable logic structures (e.g., (FPGAs)). The programmable, non-volatile memory elements comprise one or more structures based on Phase Change Memory, Programmable Metallization, Carbon Nano-Electromechanical (CNT-NEM), or Metal Nano-Electromechanical device technologies.