Altera Assigned Two Patents

Configurable storage elements
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,154,134) developed by Voogel, Martin, Los Altos, CA, Teig, Steven, Menlo Park, CA, Chanack, Thomas S., Saratoga, CA, Caldwell, Andrew, Ko, Jung, Santa Clara, CA, and Chandler, Trevis, San Francisco, CA, for a “configurable storage elements.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Some embodiments provide a configurable integrated circuit, (IC) having a routing fabric that includes configurable storage element in its routing fabric. In some embodiments, the configurable storage element includes a parallel distributed path for configurably providing a pair of transparent storage elements. The pair of configurable storage elements can configurably act either as non-transparent, (i.e., clocked) storage elements or transparent configurable storage elements. In some embodiments, the configurable storage element in the routing fabric performs both routing and storage operations by a parallel distributed path that includes a clocked storage element and a bypass connection. In some embodiments, the configurable storage element perform both routing and storage operations by a pair of master-slave latches but without a bypass connection. The routing fabric in some embodiments supports the borrowing of time from one clock cycle to another clock cycle by using the configurable storage element that can be configure to perform both routing and storage operations in different clock cycles. In some embodiments, the routing fabric provide a low power configurable storage element that includes multiple storage elements that operates at different phases of a slower running clock.“

The patent application was filed on May 19, 2014 (14/281,775).

Configurable storage elements
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,148,151) developed by Teig, Steven, Menlo Park, CA, Ebeling, Christopher D., San Jose, CA, Voogel, Martin, Los Altos, CA, and Caldwell, Andrew, Santa Clara, CA, for a “configurable storage elements.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A low power sub-cycle reconfigurable conduit is provided. The low power reconfigurable conduit is a clocked storage element that consumes less power when performing low-throughput operations that do not require sub-cycle rate. The low power conduit includes a first configurable routing multiplexer that is reconfigurable to select one of several inputs at a first clock rate. The low power conduit also includes an array of storage elements for storing output data from the configurable routing multiplexer at the first clock rate. Each storage element in the array of storage elements operate at a second clock rate that is slower than the first clock rate. Each storage element receives a different phase of a clock that operates at the second clock rate. The low power conduit also includes a second configurable routing multiplexer that is reconfigurable to select from the array of storage elements at the first clock rate.“

The patent application was filed on July 13, 2012 (13/549,405).