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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2006
Applicant:
Zheng Chen, Allentown, PA (US);
Inventor:
Zheng Chen, Allentown, PA (US);
Assignee:
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/30 (2006.01); H03K 19/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of generating a compressed configuration bitstream for a programmable logic device comprises encoding the most-prevalent data word within the configuration data of the bitstream into a first type of code word; encoding a set of more-prevalent data words within the configuration data into a second type of codeword; and identifying in the compressed bitstream at least some of the data words that are members of the set of more-prevalent data words.