US Patent Issued to GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR on March 3 for "Method and system for providing programmable microcontroller unit (MCU) using two-phase configuration process" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,417, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Guangzhou, China).

"Method and system for providing programmable microcontroller unit (MCU) using two-phase configuration process" was invented by Jinghui Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention discloses a two-phase configuration process ("TCP") to configure a field-programmable gate array ("FPGA") to include a configurable microcontroller unit ("CMU") during a phase I configuration and configuring the CMU during a phase II configuration. TCP, in one aspect, is able to receive first configuration data from a first ...