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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:
Jun. 28, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2001
Applicants:
Reto Stamm, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ciaran Mcgloin, Dublin, IE;
David Mcnicholl, Dundalk, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/50 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and arrangement for executing instructions of a computer program using a programmable logic device to perform selected functions of the program. Profile data for code segments of the computer program are generated during program execution. Based on the profile data, a code segment is selected for transformation to a hardware implementation. The functionality of the selected code segment is transformed into a configuration bitstream, and the PLD is configured with the configuration bitstream. During program execution, the PLD is activated in lieu of executing the code segment.