US Patent Issued to Altera on Aug. 25 for "Multiple channel direct access memory-based configuration system" (American, Canadian, British, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,730, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multiple channel direct access memory-based configuration system" was invented by Gary Brian Wallichs (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Martyn Draper (Chesham, Great Britain), Kye Howe Wong (Gelugor, Malaysia), Kalen Brunham (Toronto) and Jeffrey Edward Erikson (Dripping Springs, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a host device and an integrated circuit. The host device includes a host memory, the host memory storing configuration data. The integrated circuit device includes an integrated circuit and a direct memory access circuitry. The direct me...