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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2006
Applicants:
San-ta Kow, San Jose, CA (US);
Ann Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Tou Nou Thao, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/02 (2006.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a programmable logic device for recovery from soft error upsets (SEUs) includes: a configuration memory operable to store configuration data; a configuration engine operable to configure the configuration memory; an error detection circuit operable to determine if the stored configuration data in the configuration memory has an error; and a configuration reset circuit operable to trigger the configuration engine to reconfigure the configuration memory if the error detection circuit detects the error.