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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Khaled A. El-ayat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Khaled A. El-Ayat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Actel Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K019/094 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention discloses an architecture for the input/output buffer section of an FPGA. It provides a convenient and efficient addressing scheme for addressing fuse matrices that are used to configure programmable input/output buffers in the FPGA. The programmable I/O buffers may be configured to implement a large number of different output and input bus standards.