US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for low power modes for programmable logic devices" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,902, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for low power modes for programmable logic devices" was invented by Ping-Chen Liu (Portland, Ore.) and Andy Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure may provide efficient power consumption for programmable logic devices based on unused portions of programmable logic. A programmable logic device includes a plurality of programmable logic sectors that implement a circuit design, unused portions of the programmable logic device, and interconnection resources. The interconnection resou...