Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5742531 | Configurable parallel and bit serial load apparatus An apparatus for loading configuration information into a programmable integrated circuit (e.g., an FPGA) configurable to perform parallel loading or bit serial loading within the same architecture. The configuration information is presented to the FPGA i... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5726584 | Virtual high density programmable integrated circuit having addressable shared memory cells A virtual high density architecture having shared memory cells for a programmable integrated circuit (IC) is provided. The architecture includes logic modules, a configuration memory unit (CMU), and a global interconnect memory (GIMU) unit. A logic cycle ... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5694056 | Fast pipeline frame full detector A pipeline frame full detection circuit. The present invention is operable within a system that loads configuration data into an integrated circuit (IC) using a serial data stream and transfer mechanism. Configuration data is transferred into the IC in se... | 12/02/1997 |
