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"I interned at You Know Solutions and learned the flowchart programming environment they use. "

And what do they use? How does it work, do you click your flowcharts together?

Their patent seem to mention flowcharts:

https://www.freepatentsonline.com/9003383.html

I am familiar with the you know solutions patents and the one you refer to is for parallelizing C code and other languages into the flowcharts. Here is a link to the asynchronous design patent called "processing circuits for parallel asynchronous modeling and execution". https://www.freepatentsonline.com/10181003.html

Interesting, but not great, since I work on something related and I was not aware of any patents in that area. But it should be distinct enough, I hope. (I don't target FPGAs for example, but I have zero experience with patents, so lets see how that works out)

Yup the flowcharts are the key to the parallelizing of code

It’s similar to ladder logic. It’s called FlowPro. You can combine flowcharts together that’s easy.

It's not really similar to ladder logic but in those days it did the same thing, controlled machines. In ladder logic all of the rungs of the ladder are evaluated all of the time but with flowcharts only the necessary part of each flowchart is executed as the machine cycles.

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