Altera Corporation

Lingli Wang

Steven Perry

Richard Louis Price

Jonathan C Park

Gregor Nixon

Andrew Hall

Alasdair Scott

Chris Dettmar

Larry Kong

A user logic design for a mask-programmable logic device ('MPLD') may be designed on a comparable or compatible user-programmable logic device ('UPLD') and migrated to the MPLD, or may be designed directly on an MPLD. If the design is designed on a UPLD, the constraints of the target MPLD&#x2014;i.e., differences between the devices&#x2014;are taken into account so that the migration will be successful. If the design is designed directly on an MPLD, constraints of a comparable compatible UPLD are taken into account if the user indicates that the design will be migrated to the UPLD for testing. This means that when a logic design is intended to be migrated back-and-forth between a UPLD and an MPLD, only the intersection of features can be used. To facilitate migration, fixed mappings between pairs of devices may be created.

Method for programming a mask-programmable logic device and device so programmed

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