Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Synchronization of clock or timing signals – data – or pulses
Patent
1997-10-08
2000-06-27
Butler, Dennis M.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Synchronization of clock or timing signals, data, or pulses
708232, G06F 112
Patent
active
060819030
ABSTRACT:
A method of synchronizing and reconfiguring configurable elements in a programmable unit is provided. A unit has a two or multi-dimensional programmable cell architecture (e.g., DFP, DPGA, etc.), and any configurable element can have access to a configuration register and a status register of the other configurable elements via an interconnection architecture and can thus have an active influence on their function and operation. By making synchronization the responsibility of each element, more synchronization tasks can be performed at the same time because independent elements no longer interfere with each other in accessing a central synchronization instance.
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Munch Robert
Vorbach Martin
Butler Dennis M.
PACT GmbH
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