ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,672, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Guangzhou, China).
"Method and system for enhancing programmability of a field programmable gate array" was invented by Jinghui Zhu (San Jose, Calif.) and Diwakar Chopperla (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable semiconductor system includes a programmable integrated circuit ("PIC") and storage capable of facilitating a multi-boot with backup default configuration ("MBC") process. The PIC, in one embodiment, includes configurable logic blocks ("LBs"), routing connections, and a configuration memory for performing logic functions. The storage incl...