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US 6,209,077 B1Granted
General purpose programmable accelerator board
AssigneeSandia Corporation
InventorsPerry J. Robertson, Edward L. Witzke
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Abstract
A general purpose accelerator board and acceleration method comprising use of: one or more programmable logic devices; a plurality of memory blocks; bus interface for communicating data between the memory blocks and devices external to the board; and dynamic programming capabilities for providing logic to the programmable logic device to be executed on data in the memory blocks.
Claims16
A general purpose accelerator board comprising:
- a programmable logic device having input/output ports and control signal ports;
- a plurality of memory blocks operationally connected to said input/output ports;
- bus interface means for communicating data between said memory blocks and devices external to said board;
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- dynamic programming means for providing logic to said programmable logic device to be executed on data in said memory blocks.
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A general purpose computer acceleration method comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a programmable logic device having input/output ports and control signal ports;
- b) providing a plurality of memory blocks operationally connected to said input/output ports;
- c) providing bus interface means for communicating data between the memory blocks and devices external to the board;
- d) dynamically providing logic to the programmable logic device;
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- e) moving data from one memory block to another memory block through the programmable logic device, said programmable logic device transforming said data in response to said logic.
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