Control circuit and reconfigurable logic block
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorShinobu Fujita
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Abstract
A control circuit for providing a control signal to build a logic circuit includes a latch circuit including first and second inverted logic gates; a first variable resistive memory provided between an output of the first inverted logic gate and an input of the second inverted logic gate, the first variable resistive memory configured to store a resistance value in accordance with a write signal; and a resistive element provided between an input of the first inverted logic gate, wherein the output of the second inverted logic gate serves to transmit the control signal.
Claims19
A control circuit for providing a control signal to build a logic circuit, comprising:
- a latch circuit including a first and a second inverted logic gate;
- a first variable resistive memory provided between an output of the first inverted logic gate and an input of the second inverted logic gate, the first variable resistive memory configured to store a resistance value in accordance with a write signal;
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- a resistive element provided between an input of the first inverted logic gate and an output of the second inverted logic gate,
- wherein the output of the second inverted logic gate serves to transmit the control signal.
A reconfigurable logic block, comprising:
- an input circuit configured to acquire reconfiguration data of logic gates for building a plurality of logic circuits;
- a memory array having a plurality of memory units corresponding to a number of the plurality of logic circuits, the memory units including paired first and second variable resistive memories, configured to store the reconfiguration data based on a magnitude relation of resistance between the first and second variable resistive memories in accordance with a write signal corresponding to the reconfiguration data;
- an inverted logic gate array having a plurality of inverted logic gate units corresponding to the memory units, each of the inverted logic gate units having a latch circuit, which includes a first inverted logic gate and a second inverted logic gate, the inverted logic gate unit connected respectively to the first variable resistive memory between an output of the first inverted logic gate and an input of the second inverted logic gate, and the second variable resistive memory between an input of the first inverted logic gate and an output of the second inverted logic gate, the inverted logic gate units configured to transmit the configuration signal by reading out the reconfiguration data from the memory units;
- a selection circuit configured to transmit a selection signal for the reconfiguration data to the inverted logic gate array;
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- a reconfigurable logic gate configured to rebuild the logic gates in accordance with the configuration signal corresponding to the reconfiguration data selected by the selection signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.