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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2008
Arunangshu Kundu, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Sather, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William C. Plants, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arunangshu Kundu, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Sather, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William C. Plants, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Actel Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A repeatable non-uniform segmented routing architecture in a field programmable gate array comprising: a repeatable block of routing tracks, the routing tracks grouped into sets of routing tracks, each set having a first routing track in a first track position, a second routing track in a last track position, a programmable element, and a direct address device for programming the programmable element; wherein at least one of the routing tracks is segmented into non-uniform lengths by the programmable element and the second routing track crosses-over to the first track position in a region adjacent to an edge of the repeatable block; and wherein a first plurality of the routing track sets proceed in a horizontal direction and a second plurality of the routing track sets proceed in a vertical direction.