Programmable system on a chip

US7937601B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Actel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Greg Bakker · San Jose, US
• Khaled A. El-Ayat · Cupertino, US
• Theodore Speers · San Jose, US
• Limin Zhu · Fremont, US
• Brian Schubert · Saratoga, US
• Rabindranath Balasubramanian · Dublin, US
• Kurt Kilkind · Truckee, US
• Thomas Barraza · San Jose, US
• Venkatesh Narayanan · Fremont, US
• John McCollum · Saratoga, US
• William C. Plants · Santa Clara, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 2009
• Grant date: May 3, 2011
• Expiry date: Aug 5, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H03F2203/45166
• WIPO field: Basic communication processes
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A programmable system-on-a-chip integrated circuit device comprises a programmable logic block, a non-volatile memory block, an analog sub-system, an analog input/output circuit block, and a digital input/output circuit block. A programmable interconnect architecture includes programmable elements and interconnect conductors. Ones of the programmable elements are coupled to the programmable logic block, the non-volatile memory block, the analog sub-system, the analog input/output circuit block, the digital input/output circuit block, and to the interconnect conductors, such that inputs and outputs of the programmable logic block, the non-volatile memory block, the analog sub-system, the analog input/output circuit block, and the digital input/output circuit block can be programmably coupled to one another.