US Patent Issued to XILINX on Nov. 3 for "Aligning multi-chip devices" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,771, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Aligning multi-chip devices" was invented by Martin L. Voogel (Niwot, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe arranging TX and RX circuitry in ICs such that rotated and mirrored ICs are aligned when connected in a multiple-chip device. In one embodiment, the TX circuitry (e.g., TX physical layer or PHY) is arranged in one row while the RX circuitry (e.g., RX physical layer or PHY) is arranged in another row. As such, when an IC is rotated or mirrored, at least one TX PHY is aligned with a RX PHY on the other IC. As such, non-crossing chip-...