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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
May. 15, 2008
Adam Anthony Weiss, Minden, NV (US);
Adam Anthony Weiss, Minden, NV (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for programming logic in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) comprising, receiving a logic process including a logic node, and associating the node with a logic descriptor, and saving the logic descriptor in a memory of the FPGA. The logic descriptor including: a unique identifier of the node, an enabling indicator operative to indicate if the node is enabled, a function indicator operative to define a logic function performed by the node, an input number indicator operative to define a number of inputs of the node, an output indicator operative to indicate a logic state of an output of the node, and an input indicator operative to indicate a unique identifier of an input of the node.