Method, system and software for programming reconfigurable hardware
US6732354B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 23, 2002 |
| Grant date | May 4, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/31
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The method, system and tangible medium storing computer readable software of the present invention, provide for program constructs, such as commands, declarations, variables, and statements, which have been developed to describe computations for an adaptive computing architecture, rather than provide instructions to a sequential microprocessor or DSP architecture. The invention includes program constructs that permit a programmer to define data flow graphs in software, to provide for operations to be executed in parallel, and to reference variable states and historical values in a straightforward manner. The preferred method, system, and software also includes mechanisms for efficiently referencing array variables, and enables the programmer to succinctly describe the direct data flow among matrices, nodes, and other configurations of computational elements and computational units forming the adaptive computing architecture. The preferred software includes dataflow statements, channel objects, stream variables, state variables, unroll statements, iterators, and loop statements.
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