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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shaila Hanrahan, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher E. Phillips, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chameleon Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/750 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ; G06F 1/750 ;
Abstract
A reconfigurable system is arranged to have separate control and the data paths. The control path is set up using control fabric units which use an associated state machine to produce an address to a functional unit memory. The functional unit memory then produces the configuration data for the functional units. The use of a state machine allows for a very dense, highly-sequencable control unit that provides an encoded state to a memory which then allows a high number of control terms which results in a more linear interconnection to the data path units.