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US 9,766,650 B2Granted
Microcontroller programmable system on a chip with programmable interconnect
AssigneeCypress Semiconductor Corporation
InventorWarren S Snyder
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Abstract
A programmable device includes reconfigurable analog circuitry, reconfigurable digital circuitry, a plurality of input/output (I/O) blocks, and a global mapping system. The global mapping system is configured to selectively couple the plurality of I/O blocks with analog functional units of the reconfigurable analog circuitry and with digital functional units of the reconfigurable digital circuitry.
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A programmable device, comprising:
- reconfigurable analog circuitry;
- reconfigurable digital circuitry;
- a plurality of input/output (I/O) blocks;
- and
- a global mapping system configured to selectively couple the plurality of I/O blocks with analog functional units of the reconfigurable analog circuitry and with digital functional units of the reconfigurable digital circuitry.
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A method of operating a programmable device, comprising:
- performing an analog function on an analog signal in reconfigurable analog circuitry of the programmable device;
- performing a digital function on a digital signal in reconfigurable digital circuitry of the programmable device;
- in a global mapping system, selectively coupling a plurality of I/O blocks of the programmable device with analog functional units of the reconfigurable analog circuitry and with digital functional units of the reconfigurable digital circuitry.
A programmable system, comprising:
- a microprocessor;
- reconfigurable analog circuitry coupled with the microprocessor;
- reconfigurable digital circuitry coupled with the microprocessor;
- a plurality of input/output (I/O) blocks;
- and
- a global mapping system configured to selectively couple the plurality of I/O blocks with analog functional units of the reconfigurable analog circuitry and with digital functional units of the reconfigurable digital circuitry.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.