Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Universal two-input logic gate that is configurable and connectable in an integrated circuit by a single mask layer adjustment
- Patent Title (中): 可通过单个掩模层调整在集成电路中配置和连接的通用双输入逻辑门
-
Application No.: US12853488Application Date: 2010-08-10
-
Publication No.: US08423919B2Publication Date: 2013-04-16
- Inventor: Jane Xin-LeBlanc
- Applicant: Jane Xin-LeBlanc
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
- Current Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agent Alan A. R. Cooper; Wade J. Brady, III; Frederick J. Telecky, Jr.
- Main IPC: G06F17/50
- IPC: G06F17/50

Abstract:
A spare logic circuit for implementing any one of a plurality of logic gates includes a multiplexer circuit whose select inputs are utilized as logic gate inputs, and whose output is utilized as a logic gate output. Each of a plurality of data inputs of the multiplexer circuit is configured to receive one of first and second logic voltage levels which define the desired logic function. By modifying a single photolithographic mask, the spare logic gate can be: configured to perform the desired logic function; connected into a target logic circuit; or both configured and connected into a target logic circuit.
Public/Granted literature
Information query