A total of 8 broad patents were granted to eASIC for its innovative ASIC fabric
San Jose, California, November 6, 2003 — eASIC Corporation, a provider of configurable Structured ASIC technology, today announced that it has been issued one additional patent titled “Customizable and programmable cell array” (6,642,744) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This patent applies to eASIC’s unique technology of innovative configurable fabric, which combines FPGA-like logic programmability (SRAM-LUT) with Standard Cell-like metal routing, and it complements the other 7 patents granted to eASIC. Moreover, this technology allows eASIC to offer a breakthrough configurable logic fabric with NRE-less/Mask-less customization, when using Direct-Write eBeam. As only a single Via layer (Via 6) is used for customization, versus other methods that require writing several customized metal layers, eASIC’s technology enables very efficient and high-throughput Direct-write eBeam lithography.
