METHOD OF PROVIDING FLEXIBILITY AND ALTERABILITY IN VLSI GATE ARRAY CHIPS

Patent №

US 5,087,839

Granted

1992-02-11

Filed 1990

Owner

UNISYS CORPORATION, BLUE BELL, PA A CORP. OF DE

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07593175

A method and technique for inserting additive logic and flip-flops into the architecture of a gate array chip package whereby spare input and output pins can later be used to alter the logic functions by either disabling or enabling certain logic units internal to the chip by external signal injection.

AI hardwareH03K 19/1736H01L 23/50H10W 72/00H01L 2924/0002

AI classification

AI hardware0.61
Machine learning0.44
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
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Ownership

UNISYS CORPORATION, BLUE BELL, PA A CORP. OF DE

assignment · 54720567

Assignors

WHITTAKER, BRUCE E., BARAJAS, SAUL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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