US 12,718,851 B2 · Configurable interface circuitry

Abstract

An integrated circuit (IC) device includes functional circuits and multiple communication paths, which may include a first communication path through the functional circuits and a second communication path to permit the functional circuits to share information through a buffer and/or to bypass a subset of the functional circuits and a corresponding portion of the first communication path. The IC device may include a variety of protocol-specific interface circuits (ASIC and/or configurable circuitry) for respective IP blocks, and a controller that selectively directs traffic through the various communication paths. The controller may include a set of domain-specific OpCodes that link various subsets/combinations of the protocol-specific interface circuits as respective communication paths. The IC device may include multiple blocks of circuitry, each including a respective set of domain-specific circuitry (e.g., host-domain, network domain, RF domain, and/or data processing domain), and respective sets of OpCodes.

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Dependent claims

An integrated circuit (IC) device, comprising:

a first block of circuitry comprising a first set of functional circuits;
a second block of circuitry comprising a second set of functional circuits;
memory circuitry;
and
interface circuitry configured to:
interface amongst the first set of functional circuits and between a first buffer of the memory circuitry and the first set of functional circuits to permit the first set of functional circuits to share data with one another through the first buffer;
interface between a second buffer of the memory circuitry and the second set of functional circuits to permit the second set of functional circuits to share data with one another through the second buffer;
interface between the first and second buffers to permit the first and second sets of functional circuits to share data with another through the first and second buffers;
and
interface directly between the first and second sets of functional circuits.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Configurable interface circuitry

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Abstract

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