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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2003
Steven J. E. Wilton, Vancouver, CA;
Kimberly Bozman, Toronto, CA;
Noha Kafafi, North Vancouver, CA;
James Wu, Vancouver, CA;
Steven J. E. Wilton, Vancouver, CA;
Kimberly Bozman, Toronto, CA;
Noha Kafafi, North Vancouver, CA;
James Wu, Vancouver, CA;
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Integrated circuit devices having fixed and programmable logic portions are made by combining a hardware description language representation of the fixed logic and a hardware description language representation of the programmable logic to create a single hardware description language representation of a device. This allows multiple portions of programmable logic, distributed where needed in whatever size needed, to be interspersed among the fixed logic. Because the behavior of the programmable logic, rather than of the user programming, is being represented, a programmable logic architecture is provided that lacks behaviors, such as combinational loops, that would cause compilation of the hardware description language to generate errors.