Control fabric unit including associated configuration memory and PSOP state machine adapted to provide configuration address to reconfigurable functional unit
US6349346B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 23, 1999 |
| Grant date | Feb 19, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 23, 2019 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F15/7867
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A reconfigurable system is arranged to have separate control and the data paths. The control path is set up using control fabric units which use an associated state machine to produce an address to a functional unit memory. The functional unit memory then produces the configuration data for the functional units. The use of a state machine allows for a very dense, highly-sequencable control unit that provides an encoded state to a memory which then allows a high number of control terms which results in a more linear interconnection to the data path units.
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