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US07768819B2 Variable sized soft memory macros in structured cell arrays, and related methods 有权
结构化单元阵列中的可变大小的软存储器宏以及相关方法

  • Patent Title: Variable sized soft memory macros in structured cell arrays, and related methods
  • Patent Title (中): 结构化单元阵列中的可变大小的软存储器宏以及相关方法
  • Application No.: US12548976
    Application Date: 2009-08-27
  • Publication No.: US07768819B2
    Publication Date: 2010-08-03
  • Inventor: David Lewis
  • Applicant: David Lewis
  • Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
  • Assignee: Altera Corporation
  • Current Assignee: Altera Corporation
  • Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
  • Agency: Ropes & Gray LLP
  • Agent Robert R. Jackson
  • Main IPC: G11C11/00
  • IPC: G11C11/00
Variable sized soft memory macros in structured cell arrays, and related methods
Abstract:
The logic cells (HLEs) of a structured application-specific integrated circuit (structured ASIC) can be used to provide memory blocks of various sizes. Any one or more of several techniques may be employed to facilitate doing this for various user designs that may have different requirements (e.g., in terms of size) for such memory blocks. For example, pre-designed macros of memory blocks may be provided and then combined as needed to provide memory blocks of various sizes. Placement constraints may be observed for certain portions of the memory circuitry (e.g., the memory core), while other portions (e.g., address predecoder circuitry, write and read data registers, etc.) may be located relatively freely.
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