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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Craig Lytle, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Craig Lytle, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G01D 3/00 (2006.01); G01M 19/00 (2006.01); G01P 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A heterogeneous device including multiple types of resources is provided to implement multiple logic functions. Logic functions are provided with multiple configuration options. In one example, an optimal set of configuration options along with a target device are selected using cost and resource availability information associated with multiple heterogeneous programmable chips and the configuration options provided with the logic blocks.