Patent classifications
H03K19/17756
Reconfigurable integrated circuit and operating principle
An electrical device comprising a reconfigurable integrated circuit that includes paired top electrodes and bottom electrodes separated from each other by an active layer.
Deterministic dynamic reconfiguration of interconnects within programmable network-based devices
A device includes a plurality of reconfigurable resources, a bus, and a configurator. The bus interconnects the plurality of reconfigurable resources. The configurator is configured to deterministically compute a segmented interconnect configuration for the bus based on operational parameters associated with the device and operational constraints associated with program modules to be executed by the plurality of reconfigurable resources.
PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC ACCELERATOR IN SYSTEM ON CHIP
A programmable logic array (PLA) is disclosed employing programming logic tile (PLT), System On Chip (SOC) interface bus, Input Output (IO) blocks and Logic Processing Blocks (LPB). SOC processors using SOC interface bus program PLT successively using different configuration memory bank values to realize a logic not limited by the PLT resource counts. Configuration memory blocks comprising of multiple configuration memory banks and configuration programming control logic remove logic processing penalty due to configuration delays. PLT comprises of Programmable Logic Cells (PLC), Programmable Logic Interface (PLY), Embedded Array Blocks (EAB) and configuration memory block. PLA comprises of PLT, IO blocks, SOC interface bus and LPB. PLA accelerates user functionality in as SOC. IO blocks are used to stream data from other SOC components. LPB use PLT to accelerate user specific functionality.
VIRTUAL MEMORY WITH DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION FOR MULTI-TENANT FPGAS
At least one example embodiment provides a programmable logic device comprising: a plurality of reconfigurable slots programmed to execute functions requested by a plurality of users, the plurality of reconfigurable slots allocated among the plurality of users; a memory divided into a plurality of memory segments, the plurality of memory segments allocated among the plurality of reconfigurable slots; and a memory management circuit configured to dynamically adjust the plurality of memory segments based on at least one of activity or memory requirements of the plurality of reconfigurable slots.
VIRTUAL MEMORY WITH DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION FOR MULTI-TENANT FPGAS
At least one example embodiment provides a programmable logic device comprising: a plurality of reconfigurable slots programmed to execute functions requested by a plurality of users, the plurality of reconfigurable slots allocated among the plurality of users; a memory divided into a plurality of memory segments, the plurality of memory segments allocated among the plurality of reconfigurable slots; and a memory management circuit configured to dynamically adjust the plurality of memory segments based on at least one of activity or memory requirements of the plurality of reconfigurable slots.
Method and apparatus for implementing periphery devices on a programmable circuit using partial reconfiguration
A programmable circuit includes a physical interface at an input output (IO) periphery of the programmable circuit. The programmable circuit also includes a partial reconfigurable (PR) module, at the IO periphery of the programmable circuit, to implement a sequencer unit operable to configure the physical interface during a first instance of the PR module, and a controller unit operable to translate commands to the physical interface during a second instance of the PR module.
Adaptive integrated programmable device platform
A System-on-Chip includes a first partition configured to implement a first application using of at least a first portion of one or more of a plurality of subsystems of the System-on-Chip and a second partition configured to implement a second application concurrently with the first partition. The second application uses at least a second portion of one or more of the plurality of subsystems. The first partition is isolated from the second partition.
Process of programming field programmable gate arrays using partial reconfiguration
Programming field programmable gate array (FPGA) digital electronic integrated circuits (ICs) or other ICs that support partial reconfiguration, a particular FPGA having reconfigurable partitions and primitive variations configurable in each of the reconfigurable partitions, comprises: before writing configuration bitstreams to the FPGA, compiling and storing primitive bitstreams for different primitive functions that can be implemented on the particular FPGA; receiving input in a graphical user interface to connect graphical blocks representing functional logic of an algorithm to implement on the particular FPGA, the graphical blocks relating to reconfigurable logic; automatically determining a subset of the primitive functions comprising particular primitive functions that correspond to the graphical blocks; obtaining, from the digital storage, a subset of the primitive bitstreams that corresponds to the subset of the primitive functions; using partial reconfiguration operations, writing the subset of the primitive bitstreams to the particular FPGA.
Unified programmable computational memory and configuration network
Examples generally relate a programmable device having a unified programmable computational memory (PCM) and configuration network. In an example, a programmable device includes a die that includes a PCM integrated circuit having a PCM tile. The PCM tile includes a configuration memory (CM) and combinational logic (CL). The CM is capable of storing configuration data received via a node in the PCM tile. The CL is configured to receive internal control signal(s) and first and second input signals and to output a result signal. The CL is capable of outputting the result signal resulting from a logic function that is responsive to the internal control signal(s) and a signal of a group of signals including the first and second input signals. The CL is configured to receive the first input signal via the node in the PCM tile.
FAST MEMORY FOR PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES
An integrated circuit device may include a programmable fabric die having programmable logic fabric and configuration memory that may configure the programmable logic fabric. The integrated circuit device may also include a base die that may provide fabric support circuitry, including memory and/or communication interfaces as well as compute elements that may also be application-specific. The memory in the base die may be directly accessed by the programmable fabric die using a low-latency, high capacity, and high bandwidth interface.