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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:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shaila Hanrahan, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon Guo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chameleon Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/06 ;
Abstract
A reconfigurable chip includes data registers which can be loaded from off-chip or on-chip. The data register comprises a register block produced from a number of register block units. The register bock units include an active plane store storing the current value of the register bit, at least one off-chip data background store storing a data bit which can be loaded from off-chip, and at least one on-chip data background store storing a value which can be loaded from on-chip.