Patents by Inventor Thach-Kinh Le

Thach-Kinh Le 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).

  • System and method for reading data from a programmable logic device
    Patent number: 6425077
    Abstract: A system and method for reading back data from a programmable logic device (PLD). A clock offset table having one or more clock offset values is constructed. Each clock offset value indicates a relative clock cycle at which a selected bit read from the device is saved and sent to a host computer. The data is read from the PLD at a rate of one bit per readback clock cycle, and the readback clock cycles are counted as the bits are read from the device. When the count of readback clock cycles equals an offset, the bit is selected and saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Thach-Kinh Le, Chakravarthy K. Allamsetty, Carl H. Carmichael, Arun K. Mandhania, Donald H. St. Pierre, Jr., Conrad A. Theron