Heterogeneous multiprocessor platform targeting programmable integrated circuits

US9846660B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• XILINX, INC. · US

Inventors

• Henry E. Styles · Menlo Park, US
• Jeffrey M. Fifield · Boulder, US
• Ralph D. Wittig · Menlo Park, US
• Philip B. James-Roxby · Longmont, US
• Sonal Santan · San Jose, US
• Devadas Varma · Los Altos, US
• Fernando J. Martinez Vallina · Sunnyvale, US
• Sheng Zhou · Nanhu, CN
• Charles Kwok-Wah Lo · Toronto, CA

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 2014
• Grant date: Dec 19, 2017
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F13/28
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first region being static and providing an interface between the IC and a host processor. The first region includes a first interconnect circuit block having a first master interface and a second interconnect circuit block having a first slave interface. The IC includes a second region coupled to the first region. The second region implements a kernel of a heterogeneous, multiprocessor design and includes a slave interface coupled to the first master interface of the first interconnect circuit block and configured to receive commands from the host processor. The second region also includes a master interface coupled the first slave interface of the second interconnect circuit block, wherein the master interface of the second region is a master for a memory controller.