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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2010
Tzu-fang Lee, Hsinchu, TW;
Chien-hong Lin, Hsinchu County, TW;
Jing-shan Liang, Taipei, TW;
Chi-lung Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
Tzu-Fang Lee, Hsinchu, TW;
Chien-Hong Lin, Hsinchu County, TW;
Jing-Shan Liang, Taipei, TW;
Chi-Lung Wang, Hsinchu, TW;
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A configurable processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units, at least an instruction synchronization control circuit, and at least a configuration memory. Each processing apparatus has a stall-output signal generating circuit to output a stall-output signal, wherein the stall-output signal indicates that an unexpected stall is occurred in the processing unit. The processing unit has a stall-in signal, and an external circuit of the processing unit can control whether the processing unit is stalled according to the stall-in signal. The instruction synchronization control circuit generates the stall-in signals to the processing units in response to a content stored in the configuration memory and the stall-output signals of the processing units, so as to determine operation modes and instruction synchronization of the processing units.