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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2014
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Yuezhen Fan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Eric J. Thorne, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Xiao-Yu Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Glenn O'Rourke, Gilroy, CA (US);
Stephen M. Trimberger, Incline Village, NV (US);
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of enabling the use of a programmable device having impaired circuitry includes determining one or more locations of the impaired circuitry of the programmable device; generating a defect map for the programmable device based on the determined locations of the impaired circuitry; generating a plurality of configuration bitstreams to implement a circuit in the programmable device; selecting one of the plurality of configuration bitstreams that does not use the impaired circuitry indicated by the defect map; and programming the programmable device with the selected configuration bitstream.