US Patent Issued to Xilinx on June 16 for "Bi-directional dynamic function exchange" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,369, issued on June 16, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bi-directional dynamic function exchange" was invented by Hao Yu (Broomfield, Colo.) and Raymond Kong (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bi-directional dynamic function exchange (DFX) can include receiving a circuit design for a programmable integrated circuit (IC). The circuit design includes a plurality of DFX partitions coupled by a signal path. The circuit design can be placed using a first plurality of DFX modules for the plurality of DFX partitions, in part, by selecting a flip-flop of a connection block as a boundary flip-flop of the signal ...