Reconfigurable integrated circuit

Details Reconfigurable integrated circuit Reconfigurable integrated circuit

2007-01-31

2009-08-04

Coleman, Eric (Department: 2183)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Processing control

C712S015000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07571303

ABSTRACT:
A reconfigurable integrated circuit is provided wherein the available hardware resources can be optimised for a particular application. Dynamically reconfiguring (in both real-time and non real-time) the available resources and sharing a plurality of processing elements with a plurality of controller elements achieve this. In a preferred embodiment the integrated circuit includes a plurality of processing blocks, which interface to a reconfigurable interconnection means. A processing block has two forms, namely a shared resource block and a dedicated resource block. Each processing block consists of one or a plurality of controller elements and a plurality of processing elements. The controller element and processing element generally comprise diverse rigid coarse and fine grained circuits and are interconnected through dedicated and reconfigurable interconnect. The processing blocks can be configured as a hierarchy of blocks and or fractal architecture.

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