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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Carl Ebeling, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jeffrey Christopher Chromczak, Brownsville, CA;
David Lewis, Toronto, CA;
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit may have configurable storage blocks. A configurable storage block may include a memory array, an arithmetic circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be used to determine whether to operate the configurable storage block in a first mode which may provide random access to the memory array or in a second mode which may provide access to the memory array in a predefined order. Thus, the configurable storage block may implement first-in first-out modules, shift registers, or delay-line modules in addition to implementing memory modules with random access.