SRAM bus architecture and interconnect to an FPGA
View Patent ↗An SRAM bus architecture includes pass-through interconnect conductors. Each of the pass-through interconnect conductors is connected to routing channels of the general interconnect architecture of the FPGA through an element which includes a pass transistor connected in parallel with a tri-state buffer. The pass transistors and tri-state buffers are controlled by configuration SRAM bits. Some of the pass-through interconnect conductors are connected by programmable elements to the address, data and control signal lines of the SRAM blocks, while other pass through the SRAM blocks with out being further connected to the SRAM bussing architecture.
1. A bus architecture for a plurality of dedicated SRAM blocks in an integrated circuit comprising:
a plurality of pass-through interconnect conductors, each of said plurality of said pass-through interconnect conductors having a first end connected to one of a first plurality of programmable connectors that connect said plurality of SRAM blocks to a first set of circuitry and a second end connected to one of a second plurality of programmable connectors that connect said plurality of dedicate SRAM blocks to a second set of circuitry;
an address bus disposed in one of said plurality of dedicated SRAM blocks forming first intersections with said plurality of pass-through interconnect conductors;
a data bus disposed in one of said plurality of dedicated SRAM blocks forming second intersections with said plurality of pass-through interconnect conductors;
a control signal line disposed in one of said plurality of dedicated SRAM blocks forming third interconnect intersections with said plurality of pass-through interconnect conductors; and
programmable elements disposed at selected ones of said first, second and third intersections.