Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconfiguring an ASIC at runtime
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Application No.: US14506216Application Date: 2014-10-03
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Publication No.: US09698779B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Devanathan Varadarajan , Karthik Srinivasan , Neel Talakshi Gala
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Jacqueline J. Garner; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G06F7/57
- IPC: G06F7/57 ; H03K19/00 ; H03K19/177

Abstract:
Methods for reconfiguring an ASIC at runtime without using voltage over scaling. A functional criticality of a set of logic in the ASIC is identified. Then, the set of logic are classified into a set of regions based on the functional criticality, each region of the set of regions having a target error threshold. Further, each region is power gated at runtime based on the functional criticality such that the target error threshold is achieved without using voltage over scaling.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150100608A1 RECONFIGURING AN ASIC AT RUNTIME Public/Granted day:2015-04-09
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