Vns Portfolio LLC

Gibson Dana Elliot

Charles H Moore

A method and apparatus for dynamic partial reconfiguration on an array of processors. The method includes the steps of verifying if a processor is ready for dynamic partial reconfiguration to begin, deciding the degree of dynamic partial reconfiguration, including the number and identity of all processors to be modified, executing native machine code in the port of a processing device, and modifying a segment of the internal memory of said single processing device. Additional embodiments allow modification of multiple processors in the array, including the modification of all processors on a die or system. The apparatus includes a processor array having a first group of processors connected together for performing a first task, and a second group of processors connected together for performing a second task with at least one processor connected to said first group of processors and said second group of processors for facilitating communications between said first group of processors and said second group of processors without participating in said first task and said second task. In an embodiment of the apparatus, this one processor dynamically reconfigures the array. Additional embodiments allow additional processors to aid in the reconfiguration.

Method and apparatus for dynamic partial reconfiguration on an array of processors

A system for performing parallel multiplication on a plurality of factors. In a binary processor, a first and a second memory have pluralities of bit-positions. The first memory holds a first value as a multiplier that will commonly serve as multiple of the factors, and the second memory holds a second value that is representative of multiple multiplicands that are other of the factors. A multiplier bit-count is determined of the significant bits in the multiplier. And a +* operation is performed with the first value and said second value a quantity of times equaling the multiplier bit-count.

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