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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2003
Orlando Miguel Pires Dos Reis Moreira, Eindhoven, NL;
Alexander Augusteijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Bernardo DE Oliveira Kastrup Pereira, Eindhoven, NL;
Wim Feike Dominicus Yedema, Eindhoven, NL;
Paul Ferenc Hoogendijk, Eindhoven, NL;
Willem Charles Mallon, Eindhoven, NL;
Orlando Miguel Pires Dos Reis Moreira, Eindhoven, NL;
Alexander Augusteijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Bernardo De Oliveira Kastrup Pereira, Eindhoven, NL;
Wim Feike Dominicus Yedema, Eindhoven, NL;
Paul Ferenc Hoogendijk, Eindhoven, NL;
Willem Charles Mallon, Eindhoven, NL;
Silicon Hive B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A processing system according to the invention comprises a plurality of processing elements (PE, . . . , PE). The processing elements comprise a controller and computation means. The plurality of processing elements is dynamically reconfigurable as mutually independently operating task units (TU, TU, TU), which task units comprise one processing element (PE) or a cluster of two or more processing elements (PE, PE, PE, PE). The processing elements within a cluster are arranged to execute instructions under a common thread of program control. In this way the processing system is capable of using the same sub-set of data-path elements to exploit instruction level parallelism or task level parallelism or a combination thereof, dependent on the application.