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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2006
Applicant:
Ning Xue, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ning Xue, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A programmable logic device includes a hard IP portion, which includes circuitry that is dedicated to receiving a high-speed serial data signal and performing certain basic functions related to byte alignment on that data signal, and a more general-purpose programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion is used for such tasks as synchronizing the byte-aligned data in accordance with any one of a number of possible data communication protocols.