ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,370, issued on April 8, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Active-by-active programmable device" was invented by Alireza Kaviani (San Jose, Calif.), Pongstorn Maidee (San Jose, Calif.) and Ivo Bolsens (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example integrated circuit (IC) system includes a package substrate having a programmable integrated circuit (IC) and a companion IC mounted thereon, the programmable IC including a programmable fabric and the companion IC including application circuitry. The IC system further includes a system-in-package (SiP) bridge including a first SiP IO circuit disposed in the program...