US Patent Issued to GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR on March 17 for "Programmability of a field-programmable gate array via a dual-mode port" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,352, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Guangzhou, China).

"Programmability of a field-programmable gate array via a dual-mode port" was invented by Jinghui Zhu (San Jose, Calif.) and Diwakar Chopperla (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable semiconductor system includes a programmable integrated circuit ("PIC") and storage capable of facilitating a multi-boot with backup default configuration ("MBC") process. The PIC, in one embodiment, includes a dual-mode port ("DMP"), configurable logic blocks ("LBs"), routing connections, and a configuration memory for providing configuration d...