US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on July 22 for "Modular field programmable gate array, and method of configuring and operating the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. RE50,504, issued on July 22, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Modular field programmable gate array, and method of configuring and operating the same" was invented by Cheng C. Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Anthony Kozaczuk (Burlingame, Calif.) and Geoffrey R. Tate (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit comprising an FPGA including programmable/configurable logic circuitry having a periphery, wherein resources (e.g., memory (e.g., high-speed local RAM), one or more busses, and/or circuitry external to the FPGA (e.g., a processor, a controller and/or system/external memory), is/are dis...