Integrated circuit and related improvements
US7012448B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 6, 2003 |
| Grant date | Mar 14, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 6, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03K19/17784
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An improved integrated circuit and a related system apparatus and method. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of logic area or user logic areas; and an actively switchable network capable of selectively connecting at least one logic area with another logic area. In particular, the plurality of logic areas include an array of logic-gates or logic-blocks or custom logic which form functional blocks. The integrated circuit can provide a chip-architecture where the functional blocks are specific hardware functional blocks, hardware functional blocks that are parameterized, and/or programmable functional blocks including programmable processors. Also, the functional blocks can act as objects requesting and providing services to other objects on the actively switchable network so that, when a functional block is a programmable processor, the functional block optionally implements objects, with the programmable processor making one, some or all objects thereof visible to other objects connected to the actively switchable network.
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