| 摘要 |
Disclosed is a programmable logic device (PLD) that includes logic cells that can be allocated among zones and are preferably allocated among four quadrants. I/O pins are permanently associated with a quadrant by placing the I/O pins along an exterior edge of that quadrant. Logic cells which are located in a quadrant are directly connected to I/O pins which are permanently associated with that quadrant. Even if additional logic cells are added to the PLD without changing the number of I/O pins, the I/O pins located along an exterior edge of a quadrant will still be directly connected to the logic cells in that quadrant. Thus, a user can determine whether use of a given I/O pin and logic cell, regardless of the number of logic cells in the PLD, will result in an inter-quadrant signal transmission delay.
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