Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Vantis Corporation

Om P Agrawal

Bradley A Sharpe-Geisler

Bai Yen Nguyen

Herman M Chang

Giap H Tran

Michael J Wright

Ju Shen

Kerry A Ilgenstein

Jerry D Moench

Howard H Tang

Fabiano Fontana

Jinghui Zhu

Barry Britton

Jun Zhao

Jack Tim Wong

David Lee Rutledge

Xiaojie He

Ming Hui Ding

Sajitha Wijesuriya

Brad Sharpe-Geisler

Kapil Shankar

Kuang Chi

Nicholas A Schmitz

Chan-Chi Jason Cheng

Harald Weller

Henry Law

Claudia A Stanley

Larry R Metzger

Xiaojie (Warren) He

Hans W Klein

Ludmil Nikolov

Arthur H Khu

Chienkuang Chen

Kiet Truong

George H Landers

Shyam Chandra

Douglas Morse

Paul R Bonwick

Satwant Singh

Ji Zhao

Ravindar Mohan Lall

Jock F Tomlinson

Gilles Bosco

Chong M Lee

Tom Gustafson

Fares N Mubarak

Geoffrey R Rickard

Robert A Simon

Manish Garg

Jye-Yuh Lee

Robert D Norman

John E Turner

Yu Huang

Cyrus Y Tsui

William Y Chen

Benny Ma

Sam Tsai

Jason Cheng

Bradley Felton

Joseph A Brcich

Sai-Keung Lee

Bryon I Moyer

Michele Young

Andrew Armitage

Kerry A Ingenstein

John D Tobey

Cindy Lee

Robert M Balzli, Jr

Steve Sidman

In one embodiment, a clock distribution chip includes a clock input adapted to receive an input clock signal, clock dividers each adapted to receive a clock signal based on the first input clock signal and to generate a divided clock signal, and programmable clock outputs adapted to provide output clock signals. The clock outputs are configurable to support a number of signaling standards. A programmable switch fabric is coupled between the clock dividers and the clock outputs and is configurable to provide the divided clock signals to the clock outputs.

Clock distribution chip

In one embodiment, a clock distribution chip includes a first clock input adapted to receive a first single-ended input clock signal, a second clock input adapted to receive a second single-ended input clock signal, and input buffer circuitry coupled to the first and second clock inputs. The input buffer circuitry is adapted to select an input clock signal among the first single-ended input clock signal, the second single-ended input clock signal, and a differential input clock signal derived from the first and second single-ended input clock signals. A phase-locked loop (PLL) is adapted to receive an input clock signal selected by the input buffer circuitry and to generate a PLL clock signal based on the selected input clock signal. A clock output provides an output clock signal based on the PLL clock signal.

In one embodiment, a programmable logic device includes a plurality of logic blocks; a plurality of input/output blocks; volatile configuration memory adapted to store configuration data for configuration of the logic blocks and input/output blocks; embedded block RAM adapted to store user data; flash memory having at least a first partition and a second partition; and a data port adapted to provide external device access to the first partition of the non-volatile memory. The flash memory is adapted to store within the first partition user data from the data port and is further adapted to store within the second partition user data from the embedded block RAM.

Flexible memory architectures for programmable logic devices

Within a programmable logic device, a multi-data rate SDRAM interface such as a DDR SDRAM interface includes in one embodiment a DQS clock tree, a slave delay circuit, and a delay-locked loop (DLL). The slave delay circuit is adapted to shift the phase of the DQS signal relative to the phase of data to provide a phase-shifted DQS signal to the DQS clock tree, and the DLL is adapted to control the slave delay circuit. The DLL includes a delay line comprising a plurality of instantiations of the slave delay circuit and a plurality of facsimiles of the DQS clock tree.

Programmable logic device with a multi-data rate SDRAM interface

In one embodiment, a programmable logic device includes a first multiplexer; a first memory adapted to store an identification code of the programmable logic device; and a second memory adapted to store an identification code of the programmable logic device. Inputs of a second multiplexer are coupled to the first memory and the second memory, and an output of the multiplexer is coupled to an input of the first multiplexer. The second multiplexer is adapted to select between the identification code stored in the first memory and the identification code stored in the second memory to provide the selected identification code to the first multiplexer.

Programmable logic devices with custom identification systems and methods

In one embodiment, a programmable logic device includes a plurality of programmable logic blocks and a plurality of slices within each of the programmable logic blocks. At least one programmable logic blocks includes a first slice not adapted to provide register functionality or RAM functionality, a second slice adapted to provide register functionality but not RAM functionality, and a third slice adapted to provide register functionality and RAM functionality. Control logic within the programmable logic block is adapted to provide control signals at the programmable block level and at the slice level.

Programmable logic device with multiple slice types

In one embodiment of the invention, a programmable logic device includes a plurality of programmable logic blocks and a plurality of dual-slice logic blocks within a programmable logic block. A dual-slice logic block includes a first slice including at least two lookup tables (LUTs); a second slice including at least two LUTs; and a routing circuit coupled to each of the LUTs within the first and second slices. The routing circuit is adapted to share outputs of the dual-slice logic block among the LUTs. In another embodiment of the invention, the dual-slice logic block includes a second routing circuit coupled to each of the LUTs within the first and second slices. The second routing circuit is adapted to share inputs of the dual-slice logic block among the LUTs.

Dual-slice architectures for programmable logic devices

In one embodiment of the invention, a clock distribution (CD) chip has one or more input pins, input buffer circuitry, clock generation and distribution circuitry, fanout circuitry, one or more output pins, a feedback pin, and feedback buffer circuitry. Based on single-ended or differential input clock signals applied to the input pins, the CD chip can be programmably configured to generate zero, one, or more zero-delay (ZD) output clock signals and zero, one, or more non-zero-delay (NZD) output clock signals for simultaneous presentation at the output pins.

Clock distribution chip for generating both zero-delay and non-zero-delay clock signals

Systems and methods provide programmable logic block architectures and routing architectures for the programmable logic blocks. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a programmable logic device includes a plurality of programmable logic blocks and a plurality of logic block slices within each of the programmable logic blocks. A first routing circuit provides global signal routing within the programmable logic device for the corresponding programmable logic block. A first input routing circuit receives signals from the first routing circuit and routes the signals to the logic block slices within the corresponding programmable logic block.

Area efficient routing architectures for programmable logic devices

In one embodiment of the invention, a programmable logic device comprises configuration memory adapted to store configuration data and a plurality of programmable logic blocks. At least one programmable logic block includes a plurality of dual-slice logic blocks, each dual-slice logic block including first and second slices, each slice including at least two lookup tables (LUTs) and a register. The programmable logic block further includes control logic adapted for selecting control signals separately at a programmable block level, a dual-slice block level, and a register level, the control logic responsive to configuration data stored within the configuration memory.

Logic block control architectures for programmable logic devices

A programmable logic block within a programmable logic device includes at least two interconnected slices, each of the interconnect slices including at least two interconnected lookup tables. Each interconnected lookup table is adapted to receive input signals from a routing structure and to provide a LUT output signal. At least one of the slices includes a register adapted to register the LUT output signal of a lookup table and at least another of the slices includes fewer such registers than lookup tables.

Programmable logic device with enhanced logic block architecture

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved non-volatile storage techniques for programmable logic devices. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a programmable logic device includes a plurality of logic blocks, a plurality of input/output blocks, and a volatile memory to store data within the programmable logic device, with configuration memory adapted to store first configuration data for configuration of the logic blocks, the input/output blocks, and the volatile memory of the programmable logic device. The programmable logic device further includes a non-volatile memory adapted to store data provided from the volatile memory.

Programmable logic devices with user non-volatile memory

Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide techniques for providing programmable identification codes (IDCODE) for PLDs. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a programmable logic device includes a first non-volatile memory adapted to store a first identification code of the programmable logic device, and a second memory adapted to store a second identification code of the programmable logic device. A control circuit selects between the first identification code stored in the first non-volatile memory and the second identification code stored in the second memory to provide as an identification code for the programmable logic device.

Systems and methods provide non-volatile memory architectures for programmable logic devices. For example, a programmable logic device may include logic blocks, input/output blocks, and configuration memory to store configuration data for configuration of the logic blocks and the input/output blocks. A first non-volatile memory may store user information, besides configuration data, and a first port includes a dedicated serial peripheral interface to provide access to the first non-volatile memory.

A programmable logic device includes a plurality of input/output blocks providing an input/output interface for the programmable logic device and a first and second plurality of logic blocks providing programmable logic functions, with only the second plurality of logic blocks further adapted to provide distributed random access memory functions. A routing structure programmably interconnects the input/output blocks and the first and second plurality of logic blocks. Configuration memory cells store configuration data to configure the input/output blocks, the first and second plurality of logic blocks, and the routing structure. In one embodiment, there are at least twice as many logic blocks in the first plurality of logic blocks than in the second plurality of logic blocks. In another embodiment, the first and second plurality of logic blocks are arranged in one or more rows, and the programmable logic device includes one or more rows of embedded block RAM.

Programmable logic devices with distributed memory

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Om P Agrawal