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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2008
Erhard Joachim Pistorius, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael D. Hutton, Mountain View, CA (US);
Erhard Joachim Pistorius, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael D. Hutton, Mountain View, CA (US);
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
To improve interfacing between a block of dedicated function circuitry and blocks of more general purpose circuitry on an integrated circuit ('IC'), signals that are to be output by the dedicated function block are routed internally in that block so that they go into interconnection circuitry on the IC for more efficient application by that interconnection circuitry to the general purpose circuitry. Some of this routing internal to the dedicated function block may be controllably variable. The routing internal to the dedicated function block may also be arranged to take advantage of 'sneak' connections that may exist between the dedicated function block and the general purpose blocks.