Patents by Inventor John Jun Yu

John Jun Yu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8629006
    Abstract: The present invention provides architectures for hybrid integrated circuits and methods for producing these hybrid integrated circuits that contain both field programmable gate arrays and mask programmable gate arrays, a form of application specific integrated circuits. Methods for producing an integrated circuit that is field programmable as well as mask programmable include the steps of: designing wafer bank layers and finishing layers, where the wafer bank layers provide a plurality of selectable functional blocks; fabricating said wafer bank layers; designing mask programmed interconnect layers for said integrated circuit, where the interconnect layers interconnect selected ones of the plurality of functional blocks from the wafer bank layers; fabricating the interconnect layers on the wafer bank layers; and fabricating the finishing layers on the interconnect layers to produce the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Agate Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Winegarden, Ronald Nicholson, John Jun Yu
  • Patent number: 7928764
    Abstract: A programmable interconnect network for an array of logic cells. Said interconnect network has a plurality of switch boxes being connected in a tree structure and providing connections to its logic cells, switch boxes located at the lowest level of the tree structure are connected to logic cells; said interconnect network also has peripheral switch boxes, of which at least one is connected to an external logic. Also, an integrated circuit comprising an FP array of logic cells connected by the said programmable interconnect network and a mask programmable (MP) logic array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Agate Logic (Beijing), Inc.
    Inventors: John Jun Yu, Fungfung Lee, Wen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20090261858
    Abstract: A programmable interconnect network for an array of logic cells. Said interconnect network has a plurality of switch boxes being connected in a tree structure and providing connections to its logic cells, switch boxes located at the lowest level of the tree structure are connected to logic cells; said interconnect network also has peripheral switch boxes, of which at least one is connected to an external logic. Also, an integrated circuit comprising an FP array of logic cells connected by the said programmable interconnect network and a mask programmable (MP) logic array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: BEIJING XIZHENG MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: John Jun Yu, Fungfung Lee, Wen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20080132007
    Abstract: The present invention provides architectures for hybrid integrated circuits and methods for producing these hybrid integrated circuits that contain both field programmable gate arrays and mask programmable gate arrays, a form of application specific integrated circuits. Methods for producing an integrated circuit that is field programmable as well as mask programmable include the steps of: designing wafer bank layers and finishing layers, where the wafer bank layers provide a plurality of selectable functional blocks; fabricating said wafer bank layers; designing mask programmed interconnect layers for said integrated circuit, where the interconnect layers interconnect selected ones of the plurality of functional blocks from the wafer bank layers; fabricating the interconnect layers on the wafer bank layers; and fabricating the finishing layers on the interconnect layers to produce the integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Steven Winegarden, Ronald Nicholson, John Jun Yu