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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shuxian Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Andy Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Watt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Chan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/36 (2006.01); H04B 3/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/36 (2013.01); H04B 3/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
An integrated circuit includes a buffer circuit, a receiving circuit, and a programmable repeater circuit. The programmable repeater circuit includes a routing input and an enable input. The programmable repeater circuit buffers an input signal received at the routing input from the buffer circuit through a first conductor to generate an output signal that is provided to an input of the receiving circuit through a second conductor only in response to an enable signal at the enable input enabling the programmable repeater circuit.