IP Library Granted Patent US 11,070,209
Granted Patent B2
US 11,070,209 · App. 16/788,760 · Granted Jul 20, 2021

Programmable logic device with fine-grained disaggregation

Inventors: Dheeraj Subbareddy (Portland, OR); Md Altaf Hossain (Portland, OR); Ankireddy Nalamalpu (Portland, OR); Robert Sankman (Phoenix, AZ); Ravindranath Mahajan (Chandler, AZ); Gregg William Baeckler (San Jose, CA)
Assignee: Intel Corporation
H03K19/1776H01L23/367H01L25/18H01L2225/06513H01L2225/06565H01L2225/06589
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Patent No.
US 11,070,209
App. No.
16/788,760
Granted
Jul 20, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A programmable device may have logic circuitry formed in a top die and memory and specialized processing blocks formed in a bottom die, where the top die is stacked directly on top of the bottom die in a face-to-face configuration. The logic circuitry may include logic sectors, logic array blocks, logic elements, and other types of logic regions. The memory blocks may include large banks of multiport memory for storing data. The specialized processing blocks may include multipliers, adders, and other arithmetic components. The logic circuitry may access the memory and specialized processing blocks via an address encoded scheme. Configured in this way, the maximum operating frequency of the programmable device can be optimized such that critical paths will no longer need to traverse any unused memory and specialized processing blocks.

Claims (14)

1. An integrated circuit die, comprising:

a semiconductor substrate;

circuitry that is formed on the semiconductor substrate and that includes:

configurable logic circuitry, wherein the configurable logic circuitry forms at least 70% of all of the circuitry on the semiconductor substrate; and

encoding circuitry formed on the semiconductor substrate to:

receive digital signal processing address data and memory address data;

encode the digital signal processing address data and the memory address data; and

transmit the encoded digital signal processing address data and the encoded memory address data.

2. The integrated circuit die of claim 1 , wherein the configurable logic circuitry forms at least 80% of all of the circuitry on the semiconductor substrate.

3. The integrated circuit die of claim 1 , wherein the configurable logic circuitry forms at least 90% of all of the circuitry on the semiconductor substrate.

4. The integrated circuit die of claim 1 , wherein the integrated circuit die does not include random-access memory blocks.

5. The integrated circuit die of claim 4 , wherein the integrated circuit die does not include digital signal processing (DSP) blocks.

6. The integrated circuit die of claim 1 , wherein the integrated circuit die does not include digital signal processing blocks.

7. The integrated circuit die of claim 1 , wherein the configurable logic circuitry comprises logic array blocks (LABs).

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2025
From: ALTERA CORPORATION
To: BARCLAYS BANK PLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073431/0309 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2025
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: ALTERA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 070159/0344 →