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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2009
Applicants:

Virantha Ekanayake, San Jose, CA (US);

Clinton W. Kelly, San Jose, CA (US);

Rajit Manohar, Ithaca, NY (US);

Christopher Lafrieda, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Gael Paul, Aix-en-Provence, FR;

Raymond Nijssen, San Jose, CA (US);

Marcel Van Der Goot, Pasadena, CA (US);

Inventors:

Virantha Ekanayake, San Jose, CA (US);

Clinton W. Kelly, San Jose, CA (US);

Rajit Manohar, Ithaca, NY (US);

Christopher LaFrieda, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Gael Paul, Aix-en-Provence, FR;

Raymond Nijssen, San Jose, CA (US);

Marcel Van der Goot, Pasadena, CA (US);

Assignee:

Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A synchronous circuit design is converted to an asynchronous circuit by converting synchronous circuit logic to an asynchronous circuit logic, and one or more additional tokens into the converted asynchronous circuit. The circuit is initialized with a desired additional number of tokens placed in the asynchronous circuit, or a desired number of tokens are inserted at an input before taking tokens from an output.


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