Patents by Inventor Panawalge S. N. Gunaratna

Panawalge S. N. Gunaratna 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: 6552410
    Abstract: A programmable circuit, such as a field programmable gate array, and a dedicated device, such as an ASIC type device, are coupled together with an antifuse based interface on a single integrated circuit. A configurable non-volatile memory that communicates with the dedicated device is also located on the integrated circuit. The platform for the programmable circuit is one half of an existing programmable circuit, which eliminates the need to engineer the programmable circuit. The programmable circuit includes a clock network that receives clock signals from clock terminals as well as from a clock network in the dedicated device. The interface between the dedicated device and programmable circuit includes a number of conductors with buffers with testing circuitry. The testing circuitry includes a PMOS test transistor and a NMOS test transistor which permits testing of the buffers without programming the antifuses coupled to the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: QuickLogic Corporation
    Inventors: David D. Eaton, Ket-Chong Yap, Kevin K. Yee, E. Thomas Hart, Andrew K. Chan, Neal A. Palmer, Michael W. Dini, James Apland, Panawalge S. N. Gunaratna