Jay M Block

US Patent:

46880720, Aug 18, 1987

Filed:

Jul 7, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/882446

Inventors:

Herbert E. Heath - Los Angeles CA
Jay M. Block - Thousand Oaks CA

Assignee:

Hughes Aircraft Company - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

H01L 2710
H01L 2702
H01L 2348
H01L 2952

US Classification:

357 45

Abstract:

A hierarchical configurable gate array is disclosed and includes a plurality of cluster regions (10,20,30,40) arranged in different levels. The first level cluster (10) includes an integral number N multi-terminal components for providing canonical functions. The second level cluster (20) includes N first level clusters; and higher level clusters (30,40) each includes N clusters of the next lower level. Interconnect regions (13,15,17,19) are provided within each cluster for interconnections between the N elements of each level. Selected input or output ports for each element of a cluster are available for interconnection at more than one location.