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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1996
Christopher W Jones, Pleasanton, CA (US);
James B MacArthur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anita X Meng, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for coding programming instructions in a complex programmable logic device (CPLD). In one embodiment, a CPLD has an instruction storage element comprising a first number of bits and requiring a first number of clock cycles to load the first number of bits. A novel method is used to instruct the device to perform at least one function comprising the steps of serially shifting a first instruction into the instruction storage element in a second number of clock cycles, and serially shifting a second instruction into the instruction storage element in a third number of clock cycles. The third number of clock cycles may be less than the first number of clock cycles. The third number of clock cycles may also be less than the second number of clock cycles. In one embodiment, the third number of clock cycles comprises one clock cycle.