Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Qiang Wang

Qiang Li

Zhenguo Gu

Zhuolei Wang

A system-on-chip includes a reconfigurable data interface to prepare data streams for execution patterns of a processing unit in a flexible compute accelerate system. An apparatus is provided that includes a first set of line buffers configured to store a plurality of data blocks from a memory of a system-on-chip and a field composition circuit configured to generate a plurality of data segments from each of the data blocks. The field composition circuit is reconfigurable to generate the data segments according to a plurality of reconfiguration schemes. The apparatus includes a second set of line buffers configured to communicate with the field composition circuit to store the plurality of data segments for each data block, and a switching circuit configured to generate from the plurality of data segments a plurality of data streams according to an execution pattern of a processing unit of the system-on-chip.

Reconfigurable data interface unit for compute systems

The disclosure relates to technology for configuring programmable logic devices having multiple programmable hardware units configurable in one or more functional modes. The programmable hardware units are coupled to independent switch devices (e.g., multiplexers) that select configuration patterns stored in a common and shared configuration memory. The configuration memory includes a set of configuration registers to store the configuration patterns, which configuration patterns correspond to the one or more functional modes. The configuration registers may be addressed using an index of addresses stored in memory that identify a select line in one of the switch devices for a particular programmable hardware unit. Each select line in a switch device corresponds to a particular one of the configuration registers storing the configuration pattern. The addressed configuration register is accessed to retrieve the configuration pattern and configure the programmable hardware unit.

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Qiang Wang