Adaptive integrated circuitry with heterogeneous and reconfigurable matrices of diverse and adaptive computational units having fixed, application specific computational elements

An adaptive mobile communications device comprising:

• a first configurable computational logic unit including a first plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to each other via a first computational interconnection network to configure interconnections between the computational elements in response to configuration information to perform a first operation of a first communication mode function;
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• a second configurable complex processing unit including a second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to each other via a second interconnection network to configure the interconnections between the second plurality of computational elements in response to the configuration information to perform a second operation of the first communication mode function, the second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements having different types of computational elements than those of the first plurality of heterogeneous computational elements;
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• wherein the interconnections between the computational elements of the first and second computational units are configured via second configuration information to perform a second communication mode function.

A method of changing communication modes from a first communication mode to a second communication mode in a communications device comprising:

• configuring a first computational interconnection network to configure interconnections between a first plurality of computational elements of a first configurable computational logic unit in response to first communication mode configuration information to perform an operation of the first communication mode function;
• configuring a second interconnection network to configure the interconnections between a second plurality of computational elements of a configurable complex processing unit in response to the first communication mode configuration information to perform another operation of the first communication mode function, the second plurality of heterogeneous computational elements having different types of computational elements than those of the first plurality of heterogeneous computational elements;
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• reconfiguring the interconnections between the computational elements of the first and second computational units via second configuration information to perform a function of the second communication mode.