US Patent Issued to SiFive on Nov. 18 for "Integrated circuit generation using an integrated circuit shell" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,284, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit generation using an integrated circuit shell" was invented by Ryan Macdonald (San Francisco), Erik Arthur Danie (Oakland, Calif.), Wesley Waylon Terpstra (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yunsup Lee (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for integrated circuit design using integrated circuit shells. For example, a system may generate an integrated circuit core design expressed in a hardware description language. The integrated circuit core design may express circuitry that describes one or more function...