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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2012
Applicant:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Julian Lupu, Portland, OR (US);
Shivani C. Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
Lee N. Chung, San Jose, CA (US);
Teymour M. Mansour, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01); H01L 25/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/3185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/318513 (2013.01); H01L 2924/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a configuration data sequence is input to a master programmable integrated circuit (IC). In response to control bits in the configuration data sequence, the master programmable IC transmits the configuration data sequence to one or more slave programmable ICs. The master programmable IC and the one or more slave programmable ICs are configured in parallel with configuration bits from the configuration data sequence.