US Patent Issued to Altera on Jan. 27 for "Circuit design visibility in integrated circuit devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,356, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuit design visibility in integrated circuit devices" was invented by Yi Peng (Newark, Calif.) and Brandon Lewis Gordon (Campell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an integrated circuit device configured to implement a circuit design. The integrated circuit device includes a communication interface configured to receive the circuit design in a configuration bitstream and instrumentation logic in the configuration bitstream and signal collector block configured to collect signal data based on the instrumentation logic during implementati...