Invention Application
- Patent Title: INTEGRATED CIRCUITS HAVING EXPANDABLE PROCESSOR MEMORY
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Application No.: US15273321Application Date: 2016-09-22
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Publication No.: US20180081696A1Publication Date: 2018-03-22
- Inventor: Paul Kim , Alfredo de la Cruz , Gary Brian Wallichs , Yi Peng
- Applicant: Altera Corporation
- Main IPC: G06F9/44
- IPC: G06F9/44 ; G06F17/50 ; G11C7/10 ; G06F13/16 ; G11C5/14 ; G06F13/40

Abstract:
Integrated circuits may have programmable logic circuitry and hard-coded circuitry. The hard-coded circuitry may include data circuitry, a processor, and memory. As the hard-coded circuitry has a limited capacity, a portion of the programmable logic circuitry may be configured using configuration data to serve as expanded soft-coded memory for the hard-coded processor. Instructions for controlling settings of the data circuitry may be stored on the hard-coded and soft-coded memory. An additional portion of the programmable logic circuitry may be configured using the configuration data to serve as a soft-coded processor that executes the instructions stored on the soft-coded memory. Use of the soft-coded processor and/or expanded soft-coded memory may allow for more advanced algorithms for initialization and calibration of the data circuitry than when only hard-coded memory is used and may allow for updated processor circuitry to be implemented.
Public/Granted literature
- US10509757B2 Integrated circuits having expandable processor memory Public/Granted day:2019-12-17
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