US Patent Issued to Altera on May 5 for "Circuits and methods for sub-bank sharing of external interfaces" (Malaysian, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,423, issued on May 5, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuits and methods for sub-bank sharing of external interfaces" was invented by Archanna Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.), Arvind Tirumalai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Arch Zaliznyak (San Mateo, Calif.), Gopal Iyer (Milpitas, Calif.), Hon Khet Chuah (Penang, Malaysia), Arun Patel (Toronto) and Kok Kee Looi (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first input/output lane comprising first external terminals and first driver circuits. The first driver circuits exchange signals with a first external device through the first external t...