Patents Assigned to Roann Circuits Tech Ltd., L.L.C.
  • Patent number: 8332796
    Abstract: An Application-Specific Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device or fabric is described for use in applications requiring fast reconfigurability of devices in the field, enabling multiple personalities for re-using silicon resources (like arrays of large multipliers in DSP applications) from moment-to-moment for implementing different hardware algorithms. In a general purpose FPGA device or fabric, this fast reconfigurability is normally implemented by special reconfiguration support circuitry and/or additional configuration memory. Unfortunately, this flexibility requires a large amount of programmable routing resource and silicon area—limiting the viability in volume production applications. This invention describes how multi-program FPGA functionalities may be migrated to smaller die by constructing implementations with a hybrid FPGA/ASIC interconnect structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Roann Circuits Tech Ltd., L.L.C.
    Inventor: Robert Osann, Jr.