Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor – Nanotechnology related integrated circuit design
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-22
2008-04-22
Chiang, Jack (Department: 2825)
Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor
Nanotechnology related integrated circuit design
C716S030000, C716S030000, C703S023000, C703S024000, C703S025000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07363608
ABSTRACT:
A system and method are provided for accelerating development and debug of a printed circuit board (PCB) designed for use with a platform ASIC in advance of availability of a prototype sample of the platform ASIC. Aspects of the invention include a pin-out adapter card that implements a predefined pin-out of the ASIC and that hosts FPGA logic resources for emulating I/O functionality and some (or all) of the ASIC core logic; a PCB designed for use with the platform ASIC, wherein the PCB includes the predefined ASIC pin-out for eventually mating with the ASIC; and a socket having mating connectors on both sides for mating with the ASIC pin-out on the PCB and to the ASIC pin-out on the adapter card, respectively, for coupling the adapter card to the PCB, thereby enabling development and debug of the PCB prior to availability of ASIC samples.
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Chiang Jack
Levin Naum
LSI Logic Corporation
Strategic Patent Group P.C.
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