US Patent Issued to EFINIX on Sept. 29 for "FPGA neighbor output mux direct connections to minimize routing hops" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,302, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EFINIX INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"FPGA neighbor output mux direct connections to minimize routing hops" was invented by Marcel Gort (Toronto) and Brett Grady (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses to provide FPGA neighbor output mux direct connections to reduce, and potentially minimize, routing hops are described. Embodiments described herein include the addition of direct connections from one tile to the output muxing of a neighboring tile. An FPGA apparatus includes a plurality of logic block tiles. One or more direct connections extend from one or more logic blo...