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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:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2005
Applicants:
Chidamber R. Kulkarni, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary R. Lawman, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen M. Trimberger, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chidamber R. Kulkarni, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary R. Lawman, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen M. Trimberger, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus that uses device defects as an identifier. Data is written to memory of an integrated circuit. Defects are identified based upon the writing of the data. An identifier for the IC is then derived using the identification of the defects.