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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:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
David J. Wicker, Jr., Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Lattice Semiconductor Corp., Hillsboro, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/9173 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 1/9173 ;
Abstract
A programmable logic device (PLD) is disclosed that includes a state machine integrated into a block memory. The state machine includes state machine logic and memory elements from the block memory. The state machine logic and memory elements together may be used as an instruction unit of a processor. In such a case, the instruction unit is coupled to a processor execution unit to form a high-performance, embedded processor within a PLD.