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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2008
Alex Chow, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
William Stuart Coates, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert David Hopkins, Hayward, CA (US);
Alex Chow, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
William Stuart Coates, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert David Hopkins, Hayward, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure involves reconfigurable circuits that include an asynchronous data path with asynchronous control and at least one logic element coupled with the asynchronous data path that allows the circuit to be configured to more than one logical implementation through data and control token. In one particular example, the asynchronous data path with asynchronous control includes an interconnection of memory elements, such as latches, with each memory element including a corresponding asynchronous control element, such as a GasP element. One or more logical elements are coupled at one or more points of the data path, such coupling may involve feed-back, feed-forward, or combinations of both, and may include external data connections. Through distribution of data items and control tokens to the asynchronous data path with asynchronous control, the fixed logical coupling to the data path may be reconfigured to provide various logical arrangements.