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US 8,575,959 B2Granted
Reconfigurable logic fabrics for integrated circuits and systems and methods for configuring reconfigurable logic fabrics
AssigneeAchronix Semiconductor Corporation
InventorsRajit Manohar, Clinton W. Kelly
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Abstract
In accordance with the present invention there are provided herein asynchronous reconfigurable logic fabrics for integrated circuits and methods for designing asynchronous circuits to be implemented in the asynchronous reconfigurable logic fabrics.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- an asynchronous memory block having an asynchronous input and an asynchronous output;
- a pair of asynchronous reconfigurable logic blocks, one of the pair coupled to the asynchronous input and the other one of the pair coupled to the asynchronous output;
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- a pair of input/output (I/O) blocks coupled to corresponding ones of the pair of asynchronous reconfigurable logic blocks, the pair of I/O blocks selectably configurable to provide synchronous I/O banks and/or asynchronous I/O banks.
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A method, comprising:
- synchronously communicating information with at least one of a pair of input/output (I/O) blocks, a first one of the pair of blocks coupled to a first one of a pair of asynchronous reconfigurable logic blocks, and a second one of the pair of I/O blocks coupled to a second one of the pair of asynchronous reconfigurable logic blocks, the pair of I/O blocks selectably configurable to provide synchronous I/O banks and/or asynchronous I/O banks;
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- asynchronously accessing a memory to store the information in an asynchronous memory block coupled to the pair of asynchronous reconfigurable logic blocks.
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