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Xilinx Assigned Patent for Nonvolatile Recording of Integrated Circuit-r Data(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 5 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,327,194) developed by Sabih Sabih, Austin, Texas, for a "nonvolatile recording of integrated circuit-related data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the invention pertains to an integrated circuit that includes at least one data processing circuit that is configured to generate error data. The integrated circuit further includes a nonvolatile memory, and also a controller circuit that is coupled to the at least one data processing circuit and the nonvolatile memory. The controller circuit is configured to detect the error data. The controller circuit automatically initiates a write operation to store the error data in the nonvolatile memory in response to detecting the error data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2010 (12/861,105). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,327,194.PN.&OS=PN/8,327,194&RS=PN/8,327,194 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. KS1205AK1205-815452 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service |