Method of using electronically reconfigurable gate array logic and apparatus formed thereby

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A plurality of electronically reconfigurable gale array (ERCGA) logic chips are interconnected via a reconfigurable interconnect and electronic representations of large digital networks are converted to take temporary actual operating hardware form on the interconnected chips. The reconfigurable interconnect permits the digital network realized on the interconnected chips to be changed at will making the system well, suited for a variety of purposes including simulation prototyping, execution and, computing. The reconfigurable interconnect may comprise a partial crossbar that is formed of ERCGA chips dedicated to interconnection functions wherein each such, interconnect ERCGA is connected …