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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Anargyros Krikelis, Farnham, GB;
Martin Roberts, Marlow, GB;
Inventors:
Anargyros Krikelis, Farnham, GB;
Martin Roberts, Marlow, GB;
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In the provided architecture, one or more multi-threaded processors may be combined with hardware blocks. The resulting combination allows for data packets to undergo a processing sequence having the flexibility of software programmability with the high-performance of dedicated hardware. For example, a multi-threaded processor can control the high-level tasks of a processing sequence, while the computationally intensive events (e.g., signal processing filters, matrix operations, etc.) are handled by dedicated hardware blocks.