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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
May. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Allan T. Davidson, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, , DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/9177 ; H01L 2/500 ; H05K 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/9177 ; H01L 2/500 ; H05K 7/00 ;
Abstract
A family of related programmable logic devices is provided. The family includes a first programmable logic device having n number of logic modules. The first programmable logic device is incorporated into a first package, with the n number of logic modules bonded out to the first package. A second programmable logic device has a number of logic modules greater than n. The second programmable logic device is incorporated into a second package of substantially the same size as the first package and having an identical pin assignment, with only n number of the logic modules of the second programmable logic device bonded out to the second package.