Patent ID: 11914716
Assignee: LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A method for asset management for a secure programmable logic device (PLD), the method comprising:
receiving a secure PLD asset access request from a PLD fabric or an external system coupled to the secure PLD through a configuration input/output (I/O) of the secure PLD; and
performing a secure PLD asset update process corresponding to the secure PLD asset access request, wherein the performing the asset update process is based on a lock status associated with a secure PLD asset corresponding to the secure PLD asset access request; and
wherein the secure PLD comprises a plurality of programmable logic blocks (PLBs) arranged in the PLD fabric of the secure PLD, and a configuration engine configured to perform the method and program the PLD fabric according to a configuration image stored in a non-volatile memory (NVM) of the secure PLD and/or coupled through the configuration I/O of the secure PLD to the configuration engine.