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US 2010/0138633 A1Published application
Variable clocked heterogeneous serial array processor
OwnerLaurence H. Cookeinventor
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Abstract
A serial array processor may have an execution unit, which is comprised of a multiplicity of single bit arithmetic logic units (ALUs), and which may perform parallel operations on a subset of all the words in memory by serially accessing and processing them, one bit at a time, while an instruction unit of the processor is pre-fetching the next instruction, a word at a time, in a manner orthogonal to the execution unit.
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A serial array processor including;
- an instruction unit,
- an execution unit comprising a multiplicity of arithmetic logic units, and
- at least one memory;
- wherein said instruction unit is configured to execute one or more configuration instructions during execution of a current operation being performed concurrently using a plurality of said arithmetic logic units, and
- wherein said configuration instructions determine the configuration of a next operation to be executed by said execution unit.
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A processor including;
- an instruction unit,
- an execution unit requiring a plurality of clock cycles to complete an operation, and
- at least one memory;
- wherein the clock frequency of said plurality of clock cycles is defined and set prior to the execution of said operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.