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

An adaptive computing engine, comprising:

• a configurable processing unit comprising a first interconnection network, and a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, at least two of which perform an arithmetic function, and, the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements comprising a multiplier computational element and an adder computational element, and each having components in a fixed architecture with fixed connections between the components, the first interconnection network coupled to the heterogeneous computational elements;
• and
• wherein the configurable processing unit is configurable to perform a signal processing function via switching interconnections of the first interconnection network between the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements.

An adaptive computing engine, comprising:

• a configurable processing unit comprising a first interconnection network, a first type of heterogeneous computational element and a second type of heterogeneous computational element, the first and second types of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to the first interconnection network, the first and second type of heterogeneous computational elements each for performing an arithmetic function and each having components in a fixed architecture with fixed connections between the components;
• and
• wherein the configurable processing unit is configured to perform a first function by bypassing at least one of the first type of heterogeneous computational elements and connecting at least one of the second type of heterogeneous computational elements via the first interconnection network and is configured to perform a different function by connecting at least one of each of the first and second types of heterogeneous computational elements via the first interconnection network.