Virtual computer of plural FPG's successively reconfigured in response to a succession of inputs
AssigneeVirtual Computer, Inc.
InventorSteven Casselman
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Abstract
A virtual network consists of many distributed virtual computers interconnected over a communication network of individual links, such as optical fibers or electrical conductors, for example. Each distributed virtual computer has at least two ports connected over respective links to other respective distributed virtual computers on the network. Each distributed virtual computer is connected to or resident within its own host, each host typically being a conventional computer such as a personal computer or a work station, for example, although at least one of the hosts may itself be another virtual computer. Each distributed virtual computer has reconfigurable logic elements such as an FPGA or an array of FPGAs.
Claims9
A method of running a computer, said computer including plural field programmable gates (FPG's), said method comprising:
- receiving a succession of inputs;
- for each one of said inputs:
- (a) computing from said one input a corresponding set of reconfiguration bits;
- and
- (b) reconfiguring said FPG's with said set of reconfiguration bits computed by the computing step,
- whereby said plurality of FPG's is successively reconfigured in response to the succession of inputs.
A method of running a computer, said computer including plural field programmable gate arrays (FPGA's), said method comprising:
- receiving a succession of inputs;
- for each one of said inputs:
- (a) computing from said one input a corresponding set of reconfiguration bits;
- and
- (b) reconfiguring said FPGA's with said set of reconfiguration bits computed by the computing step,
- whereby said plurality of FPGA's is successively reconfigured in response to the succession of inputs.
A method of operating a reconfigurable logic array, comprising:
- referring to an executable code defining a sequence of operations to be executed in sequence;
- executing said executable code operation-by-operation, said executing comprising:
- for each individual operation, computing from the portion of the executable code defining the individual operation a corresponding set of configuration data, and
- reconfiguring said reconfigurable logic array in accordance with said corresponding set of reconfiguration data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.