US 10,853,548 B1Granted

Reconfiguration of hardware components of an integrated circuit

AssigneeCapital One Services, LLC

InventorsJeremy Goodsitt, Austin Walters, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Anh Truong, Vincent Pham

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Abstract

In some embodiments, a client device may obtain an external signal. The hardware components of an integrated circuit of the client device may be reconfigured from a first configuration to a second configuration based on information in the external signal such that one or more portions of the integrated circuit that was previously inaccessible is now accessible and an application may access the one or more portions of the integrated circuit. Further, in response to a trigger, the components of the integrated circuit may reconfigure from the second configuration to the first configuration such that the one or more portions of the integrated circuit is inaccessible.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A method for facilitating hardware reconfiguration of interconnections between logic blocks of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to access a specific portion of the FPGA based on an external signal, the method comprising:

obtaining an external signal via a network connection, the external signal including information to reconfigure interconnections between logic blocks of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) of a client device;
reconfiguring the interconnections between the logic blocks of the FPGA from a first hardware configuration to a second hardware configuration based on the information in the external signal such that one or more portions of the FPGA that was previously inaccessible is now accessible;
causing an application to access the one or more portions of the FPGA;
and
in response to a trigger, reconfiguring the interconnections between the logic blocks of the FPGA from the second hardware configuration to the first hardware configuration such that the one or more portions of the FPGA is inaccessible,
wherein the interconnections between the logic blocks of the FPGA remain in the second hardware configuration prior to reconfiguring the interconnections between the logic blocks of the FPGA to the first hardware configuration in response to the trigger.

3 more elements

A method comprising:

obtaining, by a client device, an external signal including information to reconfigure hardware components of an integrated circuit of the client device;
reconfiguring the hardware components of the integrated circuit of the client device from a first hardware configuration to a second hardware configuration based on the information in the external signal such that one or more portions of the integrated circuit that was previously inaccessible is now accessible;
causing an application to access the one or more portions of the integrated circuit;
and
in response to a trigger, reconfiguring the hardware components of the integrated circuit from the second hardware configuration to the first hardware configuration such that the one or more portions of the integrated circuit is inaccessible,
wherein the hardware components of the integrated circuit remain in the second hardware configuration prior to reconfiguring the hardware components of the integrated circuit to the first hardware configuration in response to the trigger.

3 more elements

One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, effectuate operations comprising:

obtaining, by a client device, an external signal including information to reconfigure hardware components of an integrated circuit of the client device;
reconfiguring the hardware components of the integrated circuit of the client device from a first hardware configuration to a second hardware configuration based on the information in the external signal such that one or more portions of the integrated circuit that was previously inaccessible is now accessible;
causing an application to access the one or more portions of the integrated circuit;
and
in response to a trigger, reconfiguring the hardware components of the integrated circuit from the second hardware configuration to the first hardware configuration such that the one or more portions of the integrated circuit is inaccessible,
wherein the hardware components of the integrated circuit remain in the second hardware configuration prior to reconfiguring the hardware components of the integrated circuit to the first hardware configuration in response to the trigger.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.