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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2010
Applicants:
Jonathan W. Greene, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Mccollum, Saratoga, CA (US);
Volker Hecht, Barsinghausen, DE;
Inventors:
Jonathan W. Greene, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John McCollum, Saratoga, CA (US);
Volker Hecht, Barsinghausen, DE;
Assignee:
Actel Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/00 (2006.01); H01L 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An FPGA architecture includes multiplexers having non-volatile switches having control gates coupled to word lines W, each word line associated with a row, the switches connecting to wiring tracks through buffers having a controllable ground connection NGND, at least some of the switches being a tie-off switch coupleable to one of a plurality of bitlines B, each bitline associated with column.