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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Ron Diamant, Albany, CA (US);
Sundeep Amirineni, Austin, TX (US);
Mohammad El-Shabani, Seattle, WA (US);
Sagar Sonar, Austin, TX (US);
Kenneth Wayne Patton, Bee Cave, TX (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A reconfigurable processing circuit and system are provided. The system allows a user to program machine-level instructions in order to reconfigure the way the circuit behaves, including by adding new operations. The system can include a profile access content-addressable memory (CAM) configured to receive an execution step value from a step counter. The execution step value can be incremented and/or reset by a step management logic. The profile access CAM can select an entry of a profile table based on an opcode and the execution step value, and the processing engine can execute microcode based on the selected entry of the profile table. The profile access CAM can translate the opcode to an internal short instruction identifier in order to select the entry of the profile table. The system can further include an instruction decoding module configured to merge multiple instruction fields into a single effective instruction field.