US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Aug. 12 for "High speed passive serial configuration of FPGA by MCU using quad or octal SPI flash" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,775, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High speed passive serial configuration of FPGA by MCU using quad or octal SPI flash" was invented by Rajagopal Narayanasamy (Bangalore, India), Ashwin Nair (Ernakulam, India) and Sanat Kumar Mishra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to perform high speed passive serial configuration of an FPGA is disclosed. The system includes an MCU that includes an interface, an FPGA coupled to the MCU over the interface, and a flash memory coupled to the MCU and to the FPGA over the interface. The flash memory includes MCU firmware for ...