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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Cameron McClintock, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Leong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard G Cliff, Milpitas, CA (US);
Bahram Ahanin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326 41 ; 326 39 ; 326 47 ;
Abstract
A programmable logic array device has a plurality of logic regions and conductors for conveying signals between the logic regions. Conductors of several different lengths are provided so that most connections between logic regions can be made using conductors which are close to the length required and not wastefully much longer than that length.