Altera Corporation

Tabula, Inc.

Thomas S Chanack

Steven L Teig

Andrew Edward Caldwell

Martin L Voogel

Jung Ko

Trevis Chandler

Some embodiments provide a configurable integrated circuit (IC) having a routing fabric that includes configurable storage element in its routing fabric. In some embodiments, the configurable storage element includes a parallel distributed path for configurably providing a pair of transparent storage elements. The pair of configurable storage elements can configurably act either as non-transparent (i.e., clocked) storage elements or transparent configurable storage elements. In some embodiments, the configurable storage element in the routing fabric performs both routing and storage operations by a parallel distributed path that includes a clocked storage element and a bypass connection. In some embodiments, the configurable storage element perform both routing and storage operations by a pair of master-slave latches but without a bypass connection. The routing fabric in some embodiments supports the borrowing of time from one clock cycle to another clock cycle by using the configurable storage element that can be configure to perform both routing and storage operations in different clock cycles. In some embodiments, the routing fabric provide a low power configurable storage element that includes multiple storage elements that operates at different phases of a slower running clock.

Configurable storage elements

An integrated circuit ('IC') having configurable logic circuits for configurably performing multiple different logic operations based on configuration data is provided. The IC includes a row of the configurable logic circuits and multiple configuration retrieval circuits for providing configuration bits to the row of configurable logic circuits. The IC also includes a row configuration controller for forcing the multiple configuration retrieval circuits to output a particular configuration value based on a user signal that is received at runtime.

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Saratoga, CA, United States of America

Thomas S Chanack