US Patent Issued to Achronix Semiconductor on May 26 for "FPGA memory with auto address mode" (California, Maryland, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,007, issued on May 26, was assigned to Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"FPGA memory with auto address mode" was invented by Raymond Nijssen (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Pugh (Los Gatos, Calif.), Naveen Bharathwaj Akesh (Los Gatos, Calif.), Christopher C. LaFrieda (Ridgefield, N.J.), Sriram Radhakrishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ronak Mehta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Virantha Namal Ekanayake (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory blocks often consume many switch box resources. An 8-bit memory using 8-bit addressing uses at least eight address lines, eight data lines, a write-enable line, and a read-enable line....