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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2001
Kenneth Y. Ogami, Bothell, WA (US);
Douglas H. Anderson, Edmund, WA (US);
Kenneth Y. Ogami, Bothell, WA (US);
Douglas H. Anderson, Edmund, WA (US);
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and mechanism for configuring input/output connections in a programmable logical device, which comprise presenting a graphical user interface enabled to aid in configuring the programmable logical device, selecting a configuration presentation from the graphical user interface, selecting an I/O pin to be configured from the configuration presentation and selecting options for configuring the pin from among those presented in a selection set presented by the graphical user interface. The pins to be configured can be selected from either a graphical presentation or a parameter table and option selection sets can be presented in pop-up windows or drop-down lists.