Patent 5956518 Issued on September 21, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: April 11, 2016. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
A programmable integrated circuit utilizes a large number of intermediate-grain processing elements which are multibit processing units arranged in a configurable mesh. The coarse-grain resources, such as memory and processing, are deployable in a way that takes advantage of the opportunities for optimization present in given problems. To accomplish this, the interconnect supports three different modes of operation: a static value in which a value set by the configuration data is provided to a functional unit, static source in which another functional unit serves as the value source, and a dynamic source mode in which the source is determined by the value from another functional unit.
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