Reconfigurable signal processor
CA 2008902 C · Owner: Oliver, Neal Conrad · Inventors: Morton, Nancy; Oliver, Neal Conrad; Makofsky, Patrick Anthony
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Abstract, An interconnection scheme among the processing elements ("PEs") of a multiprocessor computing architecture realizes through PE reconfiguration, bothfault tolerance and a wide variety of different processing topologies including binary trees and linear systolic arrays. By using a novel variant on a tree expansion scheme the invention also allows for arbitrary up-sizing of the PE count to build virtually any size of tree network, with each size exhibiting the same high degree of fault tolerance and reconfigurability. The invention may be practiced with 4-port PEs arrayed in a module comprising a 4X4 board-mounted PE lattice. Each PE has four physical ports which, connect to the …
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- Filed January 30, 1990 and granted May 31, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 30, 2010.
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