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US 2017/0288675 A1Published application
Correlated electron switch device
AssigneeArm Limited
InventorsVikas Chandra, Robert Campbell Aitken
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Abstract
Disclosed are a circuit and method for implementing a switching function. In an embodiment, the circuit includes a first logic circuit, a second logic circuit, and a Correlated electron switch (CES) element. The CES element is configurable to have a non-volatile state to enable or disable an electrical connection between the first logic circuit and the second logic circuit.
Claims21
A circuit comprising:
- a first logic circuit;
- a second logic circuit;
- and
- a first Correlated Electron Switch (CES) configurable to a non-volatile state to enable or disable a first connection between the first logic circuit and the second logic circuit.
1 more element
A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device comprising:
- a plurality of logic circuits;
- and
- a plurality of Correlated Electron Switches (CES), at least a first one of the CESs being configurable to a non-volatile state to enable or disable connections between or among two or more logic circuits of the plurality of logic circuits.
A method comprising:
- coupling a first logic circuit to a second logic circuit by programming a Correlated Electron Switch (CES) to a first non-volatile state;
- and
- decoupling the first logic circuit from the second logic circuit by programming the CES to a second non-volatile state.
A non-transitory data carrier carrying code which, when implemented on a processor, causes the processor to;
- program a Correlated Electron Switch (CES) to a first non-volatile state to couple a first logic circuit to a second logic circuit;
- and
- program the CES to a second non-volatile state to decouple the first logic circuit from the second logic circuit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.