Operational time extension
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1. An integrated circuit (“
- IC”
) comprising;
a plurality of configurable circuits that operate in a plurality of operational cycles; and
at least one signal path through a set of the configurable circuits, wherein a particular signal is supplied for more than one operational cycles to a particular configurable circuit so that the particular configurable circuit can complete an operation in more than one operational cycles in order to allow the particular signal to traverse the signal path within a time constraint.
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Abstract
A reconfigurable integrated circuit (“IC”) that has several reconfigurable circuits, each having several configurations for several configuration cycles. The reconfigurable circuits include several time-extending reconfigurable circuits. During the operation of the IC, each particular time-extending reconfigurable circuit maintains at least one of its configurations over at least two contiguous cycles, in order to allow a signal to propagate through a signal path, which contains the particular time-extending circuit, within a desired amount of time.
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20 Claims
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1. An integrated circuit (“
- IC”
) comprising;a plurality of configurable circuits that operate in a plurality of operational cycles; and at least one signal path through a set of the configurable circuits, wherein a particular signal is supplied for more than one operational cycles to a particular configurable circuit so that the particular configurable circuit can complete an operation in more than one operational cycles in order to allow the particular signal to traverse the signal path within a time constraint. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of mapping an integrated circuit (“
- IC”
) design to an IC comprising a plurality of reconfigurable circuits performing a plurality of configurable operations in a plurality of operational cycles, the method comprising;identifying a signal path through a plurality of reconfigurable circuits that requires a signal propagation time longer than a desired time period; identifying a particular configurable circuit in the identified signal path at which the desired time period expires before the particular configurable circuit completes propagating a particular signal; and supplying the particular signal for more than one operational cycles to the particular configurable circuit so that the particular configurable circuit can complete operation in more than one operational cycles in order to allow the signal to travel through the signal path within the desired time period. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An electronic device comprising:
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a memory device for providing configuration data; and an integrated circuit (“
IC”
), the IC comprising;a) a plurality of configurable circuits that operate in a plurality of operational cycles; and b) at least one signal path through a set of the configurable circuits, wherein a particular signal is supplied for more than one operational cycles to a particular configurable circuit so that the particular configurable circuit can complete an operation in more than one operational cycles in order to allow the particular signal to traverse the signal path within a time constraint. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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