ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,558, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Guangzhou, China).
"Method and system for accessing a nonvolatile memory via SPI ports" was invented by Jinghui Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system contains a field-programmable gate array ("FPGA"), a controller, and a non-volatile memory ("NVM") for providing user-defined logic functions. In one aspect, the controller, having a serial peripheral interface ("SPI") port, is capable of processing information based on execution of instructions. NVM, having a memory SPI port, is configured to store configuration data persistently. FPGA includes m...