US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Aug. 19 for "Top down physical design of soft embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA) fabrics" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,757, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Top down physical design of soft embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA) fabrics" was invented by Kenneth W. Mai (Pittsburgh), Prashanth Mohan (Pittsburgh), Ahmet Oguz Atli (Pittsburgh) and Ogen Onur Kibar (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for performing top-down design for optimizing synthesizable FPGA fabrics which eliminates the need for floorplanning and manual buffering by providing a global timing view of the FPGA fabric to the electronic design automation (EDA) tools. This is accomplished by providing t...