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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Web Chang, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) (,and,), which includes at least one hardware, non-programmable functional block (,and,), also includes a programmable logic block (“PLB”) (,). The PLB (,) is electrically programmable for performing at least one function that complements a function performed using the hardware, non-programmable functional block (,and,). The presence of the PLB (,) in the ASIC providing system builders with an opportunity to readily differentiate products within their respective product lines by adding particular functions to the ASIC, and to also functionally differentiate among various products offered by competing system builders.