Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Processing control – Specialized instruction processing in support of testing,...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-28
2007-08-28
Coleman, Eric (Department: 2183)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Processing control
Specialized instruction processing in support of testing,...
C712S011000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10222645
ABSTRACT:
A method of associating virtual stripes to physical stripes in a pipelined or ring structure comprises associating a first set of virtual stripes with at least two physical stripes and associating a second set of virtual stripes, disjoint from the first set, with at least two additional physical stripes. The present invention is also directed to a method of configuring a plurality of processing elements based on a less than global, but not purely local, association. The configuration method of the present invention may be implemented in a device arranged in stripes of processing elements. The method comprises configuring either of at least two physical stripes with a virtual stripe from a first set of virtual stripes and configuring either of at least two additional physical stripes with a virtual stripe from a second set of virtual stripes, said first and second virtual sets being disjoint. The present invention is also directed to a reconfigurable device comprising a controller, a memory device responsive to the controller, a plurality of processing elements arranged in stripes, a plurality of intra-stripe interconnections for connecting processing elements within a stripe, a plurality of local inter-stripe connections for connecting the output of one stripe to the input of one and only one other stripe, a plurality of global inter-stripe connections for connecting at least one but less than all of the physical stripes to the memory, and an input bus and an output bus, each connected to at least one physical stripe.
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Carnegie Mellon University
Coleman Eric
Jones Day
Pencoske Edward L.
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