| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 712015000 | Reconfiguring | 38 |
| 20080235490 | SYSTEM FOR CONFIGURING A PROCESSOR ARRAY - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system for configuring a processor array using configuration chains streamed down communication channels. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080250225 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING MATRIX OF PROCESSING MODULES INTERCONNECTED BY LOCAL AND GLOBAL SELF-SYNCHRONOUS BUSES - A semiconductor device includes a plurality of processing clusters that operate synchronously internally and arranged in a M×N matrix. Each processing cluster is formed as a plurality of processing elements and clocked buses that interconnect the processing elements within each processing cluster. A self-synchronous cluster wrapper is operative with the processing elements such that each processing cluster forms a programmable module. Self-synchronous global and local buses interconnect the processing clusters for communicating externally. An input/output circuit interconnects the global and local buses. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080294870 | SWITCH MEMORY ARCHITECTURES - The present invention provides a switch memory architecture (SMA) consisting of: (i) processing elements (PE), (ii) memory banks (MB), and (iii) interconnect switches (ISWITCH). The present invention allows for efficient, potentially unbounded data transfer between two adjacent processes by passing a memory handle and the status registers (memory control information) of the MB. This function may be performed by the ISWITCH. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090037691 | ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY WITH HETEROGENEOUS AND RECONFIGURABLE MATRICES OF DIVERSE AND ADAPTIVE COMPUTATIONAL UNITS HAVING FIXED, APPLICATION SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENTS - The present invention concerns a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The preferred IC embodiment includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative in real-time to configure and reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes, including linear algorithmic operations, non-linear algorithmic operations, finite state machine operations, memory operations, and bit-level manipulations. The various fixed architectures are selected to comparatively minimize power consumption and increase performance of the adaptive computing integrated circuit, particularly suitable for mobile, hand-held or other battery-powered computing applications. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037692 | ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY WITH HETEROGENEOUS AND RECONFIGURABLE MATRICES OF DIVERSE AND ADAPTIVE COMPUTATIONAL UNITS HAVING FIXED, APPLICATION SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENTS - The present invention concerns a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The preferred IC embodiment includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative in real-time to configure and reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes, including linear algorithmic operations, non-linear algorithmic operations, finite state machine operations, memory operations, and bit-level manipulations. The various fixed architectures are selected to comparatively minimize power consumption and increase performance of the adaptive computing integrated circuit, particularly suitable for mobile, hand-held or other battery-powered computing applications. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090037693 | ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY WITH HETEROGENEOUS AND RECONFIGURABLE MATRICES OF DIVERSE AND ADAPTIVE COMPUTATIONAL UNITS HAVING FIXED, APPLICATION SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENTS - The present invention concerns a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The preferred IC embodiment includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative in real-time to configure and reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes, including linear algorithmic operations, non-linear algorithmic operations, finite state machine operations, memory operations, and bit-level manipulations. The various fixed architectures are selected to comparatively minimize power consumption and increase performance of the adaptive computing integrated circuit, particularly suitable for mobile, hand-held or other battery-powered computing applications. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090070550 | Operational dynamics of three dimensional intelligent system on a chip - The invention pertains to a 3D intelligent SoC. The self-regulating data flow mechanisms of the 3D SoC are elucidated, particularly parallelization of multiple asynchronous 3D IC nodes and reconfigurable components. These behavioral mechanisms are organized into a polymorphous computing architecture with plasticity functionality. Software agents are employed for reprogrammable 3D SoC network operability. Metaheuristic algorithms are applied to solving MOOPs in the 3D SoC for continuous reprogrammability for multiple application environments. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090113169 | RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY PROCESSOR FOR FLOATING-POINT OPERATIONS - A processor for performing floating-point operations includes an array of processing elements arranged to enable a floating-point operation. Each processing element includes an arithmetic logic unit to receive two input values and perform integer arithmetic on the received input values. The processing elements in the array are connected together in groups of two or more processing elements to enable floating-point operation. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090119480 | Method, System and Program for Developing and Scheduling Adaptive Integrated Circuitry and Corresponding Control or Configuration Information - A method, system and program are provided for development of an adaptive computing integrated circuit and corresponding configuration information, in which the configuration information provides an operating mode to the adaptive computing integrated circuit. The exemplary system includes a scheduler, a memory, and a compiler. The scheduler is capable of scheduling a selected algorithm with a plurality of adaptive computing descriptive objects to produce a scheduled algorithm and a selected adaptive computing circuit version. The memory is utilized to store the plurality of adaptive computing descriptive objects and a plurality of adaptive computing circuit versions generated during the scheduling process. The selected adaptive computing circuit version is converted into a hardware description language, for fabrication into the adaptive computing integrated circuit. The compiler generates the configuration information, from the scheduled algorithm and the selected adaptive computing circuit version, for the performance of the algorithm by the adaptive computing integrated circuit. In the exemplary embodiments, multiple versions of configuration information may be generated, for different circuit versions, different feature sets, different operating conditions, and different operating modes. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090144522 | Data Processing Device and Method - A data processing device comprising a multidimensional array of coarse grained logic elements processing data and operating at a first clock rate and communicating with one another and/or other elements via busses and/or communication lines operated at a second clock rate is disclosed, wherein the first clock rate is higher than the second and wherein the coarse grained logic elements comprise storage means for storing data needed to be processed. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090172351 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - A data processing device comprising a multidimensional array of coarse grained logic elements processing data and operating at a first clock rate and communicating with one another and/or other elements via busses and/or communication lines operated at a second clock rate is disclosed, wherein the first clock rate is higher than the second and wherein the coarse grained logic elements comprise storage means for storing data needed to be processed. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090187733 | Virtual Configuration Management for Effiicient Use of Reconfigurable Hardwware - Reconfigurable Computers (RCs) can leverage the synergism between conventional processors and FPGAs by combining the flexibility of traditional microprocessors with the parallelism of hardware and reconfigurability of FPGAs. Multiple challenges must be resolved to develop efficient and viable solutions of reconfigurable computing applications. This paper has developed virtual configuration management techniques for discovering and exploiting spatial and temporal processing locality at run-time for RCs. The developed techniques extend cache and memory management techniques to reconfigurable platforms and augmented them with other concepts such as data mining using association rule mining (ARM). We have demonstrated the applicability and the effectiveness of the proposed concepts by applying them to representative image processing applications. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090249028 | PROCESSOR WITH INTERNAL RASTER OF EXECUTION UNITS - The present invention relates to a processor that, as its main feature, has an internal raster of ALUs, with the help of which sequential programs are executed. The connections between the ALUs are automatically created at runtime dynamically by means of multiplexers. A central decoding and configuration unit that creates configuration data for the ALU grid from a stream of conventional assembler commands at runtime is responsible for creating the connections. In addition to the ALU grid, a special unit for the execution of memory accesses and another unit for the processing of branch instructions are provided. The novel architecture that is the foundation of the processor makes efficient execution of both control flow- and data flow-oriented tasks possible. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090282213 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A basic cell capable of a fixed operating frequency regardless of the configuration information, which is also capable of effectively utilizing the arithmetic logic circuit within the cell in a LSI semiconductor integrated circuit, is capable of dynamic changes in configuration information. The circuit has an input switch ISW connected to multiple data input nodes, an output switch OSW connected to multiple data output nodes, a first data path containing an arithmetic logic circuit ALU and a result storage flip-flop CFF0 between the input switch ISW and output switch OSW. The second data path containing a data transfer flip-flop between an input switch ISW and an output switch OSW, and the result storage flip-flop CFF stores the calculated result data from the arithmetic logic circuit ALU, and the data transfer flip-flop holds data input from any of the multiple data input nodes. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090319754 | Reconfigurable device - A reconfigurable device comprises a plurality of processing elements, a main memory unit that stores plural pieces of circuit configuration information, a cache unit that caches circuit configuration information forwarded to at least one of the processing elements from the main memory unit, and a cache control unit that controls forwarding of circuit configuration information from the cache unit to the processing element. The cache control unit selects circuit configuration information which must be forwarded to each processing element. When the selected circuit configuration information is not stored in the cache unit, the cache control unit reads out the circuit configuration information from the main memory unit, stores the read-out circuit configuration information in the cache unit, and sends forward the circuit configuration information to the processing element from the cache unit. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090327653 | RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING CIRCUIT - A reconfigurable computing circuit for reducing amount of dummy data to be stored in data registers, which is required when the wiring is shared by the configuration information bus and scan chain. When data is to be stored in data registers and configuration registers constituting the scan chain in reconfig computing block | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100174884 | PROCESSOR HAVING RECONFIGURABLE ARITHMETIC ELEMENT - A processor ( | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174885 | RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided are a reconfigurable processor and operating method thereof. The reconfigurable processor may use a configuration memory distributed to each operation unit. The distributed configuration memory may be separated into a distributed operation configuration memory including configuration information about an operation of a function unit, and a distributed routing configuration memory including configuration information about routing. The distributed operation configuration memory may be activated according to a predicate signal. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100281235 | RECONFIGURABLE FLOATING-POINT AND BIT-LEVEL DATA PROCESSING UNIT - Blocks of fixed-point units in a reconfigurable data processing unit assist the efficient calculation of floating decimal point numbers by virtue of joint hardware functions permanently implemented within the block. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100293356 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HARDWARE RESOURCES TO IMPLEMENT SYSTEM FUNCTIONS USING AN ADAPTIVE COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE - The present invention concerns a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The exemplary IC embodiment includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative in real-time to configure and reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes, including linear algorithmic operations, non-linear algorithmic operations, finite state machine operations, memory operations, and bit-level manipulations. The various fixed architectures are selected to comparatively minimize power consumption and increase performance of the adaptive computing integrated circuit, particularly suitable for mobile, hand-held or other battery-powered computing applications. In an exemplary embodiment, some or all of the computational elements are alternately configured to implement two or more functions. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110153981 | Heterogeneous computer architecture based on partial reconfiguration - Systems and methods for partial reconfiguration of reconfigurable application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) devices that may employ an interconnection template to allow partial reconfiguration (PR) blocks of an ASIC device to be selectively and dynamically interconnected and/or disconnected in standardized fashion from communication with a packet router within the same ASIC device. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110238948 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COUPLING A DATA PROCESSING UNIT AND A DATA PROCESSING ARRAY - The present invention relates to a method of coupling at least one (conventional) unit processing data in a sequential manner, e.g. a CPU, von-Neumann-Processor and/or microcontroller, the (conventional) unit for data processing comprising an instruction pipeline, and an array for processing data comprising a plurality of data processing cells, e.g. a preferably coarse grain and/or preferably runtime reconfigurable data processor, FPGA, DFP, DSP, XPP or chaemeleon-technology-like data processing fabric, wherein the array is coupled to the instruction pipeline. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110264888 | Dynamically Reconfigurable Systolic Array Accelorators - A polymorphic systolic array framework that works in conjunction with an embedded microprocessor on an FPGA, that allows for dynamic and complimentary scaling of acceleration levels of two algorithms active concurrently on the FPGA. Use is made of systolic arrays and hardware-software co-design to obtain an efficient multi-application acceleration system. The flexible and simple framework allows hosting of a broader range of algorithms and extendable to more complex applications in the area of aerospace embedded systems. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120204001 | RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR AND DRIVING CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a reconfigurable processor capable of reducing the routing processing time of routing nodes by driving the routing nodes at a greater frequency than a driving frequency of the processing elements. The reconfigurable processor includes one or more processing elements configured to be driven at a first driving frequency, and one or more routing nodes configured to be provided on paths that are formed between the processing elements, and to be driven at a second driving frequency that is greater than the first driving frequency. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120246444 | RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING CODE - Provided is an apparatus and method capable of processing code to which a software pipelining is not applicable, in a CGA mode. The apparatus may include a processing unit that has a very long instruction word (VLIW) mode and a coarse-grained array (CGA) mode, and an adjusting unit configured to detect a target region to which software pipelining is not applicable, in code to be executed by the processing unit. The adjusting unit may selectively map the detected target region to one of the VLIW mode and the CGA mode according to a schedule length of the detected target region. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20130046955 | Local Computation Logic Embedded in a Register File to Accelerate Programs - A system and methods for improving performance of an central processing unit. The central processing unit system includes: a pipeline configured to receive an instruction; and a register file partitioned into a one or more subarrays where (i) the register file includes one or more computation elements and (ii) the one or more computation elements are directly connected to one or more subarrays. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130246735 | RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR BASED ON MINI-CORES, SCHEDULE APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREOF - A reconfigurable processor based on mini-cores (MCs) includes a plurality of MCs, each MC of the MCs including a group of function units (FUs), the group of FUs having a capability of executing a loop iteration independently. The MCs include a first MC configured to execute a first loop iteration, and a second MC configured to execute a second loop iteration. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130326190 | COARSE-GRAINED RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR AND CODE DECOMPRESSION METHOD THEREOF - A coarse-grained reconfigurable processor having an improved code compression rate and a code decompression method thereof are provided to reduce a capacity of a configuration memory and reduce power consumption in a processor chip. The coarse-grained reconfigurable processor includes a configuration memory configured to store reconfiguration information including a header storing a compression mode indicator and a compressed code for each of a plurality of units and a body storing at least one uncompressed code, a decompressor configured to specify a code corresponding to each of the plurality of units among the at least one uncompressed code within the body based on the compression mode indicator and the compressed code within the header, and a reconfigurator including a plurality of PEs and configured to reconfigure data paths of the plurality of PEs based on the code corresponding to each unit. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140101410 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HARDWARE RESOURCES TO IMPLEMENT SYSTEM FUNCTIONS USING AN ADAPTIVE COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE - An adaptable integrated circuit is disclosed having a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The interconnection network changes interconnections between the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements in response to configuration information. A first group of computational elements is allocated to form a first version of a functional unit to perform a first function by changing interconnections in the interconnection network between the first group of heterogeneous computational elements. A second group of computational elements is allocated to form a second version of a functional unit to perform the first function by changing interconnections in the interconnection network between the second group of heterogeneous computational elements. One or more of the first or second group of heterogeneous computational elements are reallocated to perform a second function by changing the interconnections between the one or more of the first or second group of heterogeneous computational elements. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140136816 | SCALABLE COMPUTING ARRAY - A method and apparatus for providing a scalable computing array are provided herein. The method includes determining a width of a processor based on a software program, and a specified policy. The processor may be configured to comprise a number of lanes based on the width, and a thread of the software program may be executed using the configured processor. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140173246 | SCHEDULING APPLICATION INSTANCES TO CONFIGURABLE PROCESSING CORES BASED ON APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND RESOURCE SPECIFICATION - Systems and methods provide a processing task load and type adaptive manycore processor architecture, enabling flexible and efficient information processing. The architecture enables executing time variable sets of information processing tasks of differing types on their assigned processing cores of matching types. This involves: for successive core allocation periods (CAPs), selecting specific processing tasks for execution on the cores of the manycore processor for a next CAP based at least in part on core capacity demand expressions associated with the processing tasks hosted on the processor, assigning the selected tasks for execution at cores of the processor for the next CAP so as to maximize the number of processor cores whose assigned tasks for the present and next CAP are associated with same core type, and reconfiguring the cores so that a type of each core in said array matches a type of its assigned task on the next CAP. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140258678 | Parallel Configuration of a Reconfigurable Instruction Cell Array - A reconfigurable instruction cell array (RICA) includes a plurality of switch boxes. Each switch box includes an instruction cell and a switch fabric configurable according to a configuration word stored in a latch array for the switch box. The switch boxes are arranged into broadcast sets such that the latch arrays in each broadcast set receive a configuration word in parallel. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140317378 | Scheduling in a Multicore Architecture - This invention relates to scheduling threads in a multicore processor. Executable transactions may be scheduled using at least one distribution queue, which lists executable transactions in order of eligibility for execution, and multilevel scheduler which comprises a plurality of linked individual executable transaction schedulers. Each of these includes a scheduling algorithm for determining the most eligible executable transaction for execution. The most eligible executable transaction is outputted from the multilevel scheduler to the at least one distribution queue. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140351556 | METHODS FOR OPERATING AND CONFIGURING A RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR - The invention provides a method of compiling computer program instructions for implementation on a reconfigurable processor comprising a plurality of operational cells, each operational cell being connectable to and disconnectable from one or more of the other operational cells via a programmable interconnect, the method comprising: a routing step in which one or more signal processing paths are determined for performing one or more signal processing operations defined by the computer program instructions, each signal processing path comprising two or more of the operational cells connected via the programmable interconnect, the said signal processing paths being capable of implementation on the said operational cells and the said interconnect of the reconfigurable processor to perform the said one or more signal processing operations; and a post-routing step performed subsequent to the routing step in which an extended signal processing path is determined by extending one of the said signal processing paths determined in the routing step such that a critical path of the extended signal processing path is longer than a longest critical path of the signal processing paths determined in the routing step. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351557 | PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH INTERSPERSED PROCESSORS AND COMMUNICATION ELEMENTS HAVING IMPROVED COMMUNICATION ROUTING - A processing system includes processors and dynamically configurable communication elements (DCCs) coupled together in an interspersed arrangement. A source device may transfer a data item through an intermediate subset of the DCCs to a destination device. The source and destination devices may each correspond to different processors, DCCs, or input/output devices, or mixed combinations of these. In response to detecting a stall after the source device begins transfer of the data item to the destination device and prior to receipt of all of the data item at the destination device, a stalling device is operable to propagate stalling information through one or more of the intermediate subset towards the source device. In response to receiving the stalling information, at least one of the intermediate subset is operable to buffer all or part of the data item. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20150039857 | APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM AND EXECUTABLE MODULE FOR CONFIGURATION AND OPERATION OF ADAPTIVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY HAVING FIXED, APPLICATION SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENTS - The present invention concerns configuration of a new category of integrated circuitry for adaptive computing. The various embodiments provide an executable information module for an adaptive computing engine (ACE) integrated circuit and may include configuration information, operand data, and may also include routing and power control information. The ACE IC comprises a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative to configure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20160085720 | RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY PROCESSOR FOR PATTERN MATCHING - Various implementations of a method, system, and computer program product for pattern matching using a reconfigurable array processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor array manager of the reconfigurable array processor receives an input data stream for pattern matching and generates a tokenized input data stream from the input data stream. A different portion of the tokenized input data stream is provided to each of a plurality of processing elements of the reconfigurable array processor. Each processing element can compare the received portion of the tokenized input data stream against one or more reference patterns to generate an intermediate result that indicates whether the portion of the tokenized input data stream matches a reference pattern. The processor array manager can combine the intermediate results received from each processing element to yield a final result that indicates whether the input data stream includes a reference pattern. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160085721 | RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY PROCESSOR FOR PATTERN MATCHING - Various implementations of a method, system, and computer program product for pattern matching using a reconfigurable array processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor array manager of the reconfigurable array processor receives an input data stream for pattern matching and generates a tokenized input data stream from the input data stream. A different portion of the tokenized input data stream is provided to each of a plurality of processing elements of the reconfigurable array processor. Each processing element can compare the received portion of the tokenized input data stream against one or more reference patterns to generate an intermediate result that indicates whether the portion of the tokenized input data stream matches a reference pattern. The processor array manager can combine the intermediate results received from each processing element to yield a final result that indicates whether the input data stream includes a reference pattern. | 03-24-2016 |
