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Output and/or input coordinated processing array

US6636986B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 30, 2001
Grant dateOct 21, 2003
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Expiry dateNov 30, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10F39/809
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A data processing system containing a monolithic network of cells with sufficient redundancy provided through direct logical replacement of defective cells by spare cells to allow a large monolithic array of cells without uncorrectable defects to be organized, where the cells have a variety of useful properties. The data processing system according to the present invention overcomes the chip-size limit and off-chip connection bottlenecks of chip-based architectures, the von Neumann bottleneck of uniprocessor architectures, the memory and I/O bottlenecks of parallel processing architectures, and the input bandwidth bottleneck of high-resolution displays, and supports integration of up to an entire massively parallel data processing system into a single monolithic entity.

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