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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2011
Brad Hutchings, Fremont, CA (US);
Jason Redgrave, Mountain View, CA (US);
Teju Khubehandani, Milpitas, CA (US);
Herman Schmit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven Teig, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Brad Hutchings, Fremont, CA (US);
Jason Redgrave, Mountain View, CA (US);
Teju Khubehandani, Milpitas, CA (US);
Herman Schmit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven Teig, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tabula, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (IC) that has several configurable circuits for configurably performing different operations. During the operation of the IC, each particular configurable circuit performs a particular operation that is specified by a particular configuration data set for the particular configurable circuit. While the IC operates and a first set of configurable circuits performs a first set of operations, configuration data is loaded from the outside of the IC for configuring a second set of configurable circuits. In some embodiments, the configurable IC includes a configuration network for rapid loading configuration data in the IC from outside of the IC. In some of these embodiments, the configuration network is a pipelined network.