US Patent Issued to XILINX on Aug. 25 for "Configurable interface circuitry" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,851, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configurable interface circuitry" was invented by Jaideep Dastidar (Austin, Texas), David James Riddoch (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Steven Leslie Pope (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes functional circuits and multiple communication paths, which may include a first communication path through the functional circuits and a second communication path to permit the functional circuits to share information through a buffer and/or to bypass a subset of the functional circuits and a corresponding p...