摘要:
A PLD (200) includes a power management unit (PMU 210) that selectively implements one or more different power-reduction techniques in response to power configuration signals (PC). By manipulating the PC signals, the PMU can independently enable/disable various supply voltage circuits (110, 120, 130) that power CLBs (101), IOBs (102), and configuration memory cells (106), can generate a capture signal that causes data stored in storage elements of the CLBs to be captured in configuration memory cells, and/or can switch power terminals of configuration memory cells between voltage supply circuits. Also, the PMU can sequentially apply and remove power from a number of configurable PLD portions in response to the PC signals, wherein each configurable portion may include any number of the PLD's resources.
摘要:
An FPGA system includes a combined shift register and look up table (LUT) forming a shift register LUT (SRL) that provides data write, reset and shift enable on a cell-by-cell basis. The data write and reset can be performed during FPGA operation without requiring a number of frames or columns of configuration memory cells to be reprogrammed, as with conventional SRAM cells. The shift enable provides for synchronization to facilitate the cell-by-cell write and reset.
摘要:
An apparatus is disclosed that may reduce the dynamic power dissipation of a configurable IC device such as an FPGA by reducing the peak-to-peak voltage swing of signals transmitted over the device's interconnect signal lines without including additional level shifter circuits. For some embodiments, existing multiplexing circuit architectures provided within logic resources of various logic blocks of the configurable IC device may be used as level shifter circuits to increase the voltage swing of signals received into the blocks from the interconnect signal lines, and modified multiplexing circuit architectures provided within the logic resources may be used to reduce the voltage swing of signals output from the logic blocks onto the interconnect signal lines.
摘要:
An integrated circuit has an optical waveguide configured to carry a plurality of optical channels, which in a particular embodiment are optical clock signals generated by an optical clock generator. The integrated circuit includes an optical crossbar having a first output, a second output, a first optical ring resonator, and a second optical ring resonator. In a further embodiment, the optical crossbar is an optical crossbar switch and an output path in the optical crossbar switch includes another tunable optical ring resonator and an intermediate waveguide, which allows isolating the output from any optical channel on the on-chip optical waveguide by tuning the first ring resonator to a first wavelength, and tuning the other ring resonator to another wavelength.
摘要:
A low voltage differential signaling driver is disclosed that is capable of supporting many different LVDS standards or signal level requirements. The low voltage differential signaling driver has a programmable offset voltage and a programmable differential output voltage, which may be programmed independently.
摘要:
A system for running one or more applications is provided. Each application may require memory services that can be accelerated using configurable memory assistance circuits associated with different levels of a memory hierarchy. Integrated circuit design tools may be used to generate configuration data for programming the configurable memory assistance circuits. During compile time, the design tools may identify memory service patterns in a source code, match the identified memory service patterns to corresponding templates, parameterize the matching templates, and then synthesize the parameterized templates to produce the configuration data. During run time, a memory assistance scheduler may map the memory services required by each application to available memory assistance circuits in the system. The mapped memory assistance circuits are programmed by the configuration data to provide the desired memory service capability.
摘要:
A method of integrated circuit design using through silicon vias (TSVs) can include determining that a stress field to which a first active circuit element of a circuit block is exposed and a stress field to which a second active circuit element of the circuit block is exposed are mismatched. Mismatch between the stress field of the first active circuit element and the stress field of the second active circuit element can be reduced by modifying a layout of the die for a TSV.
摘要:
A multi-port memory controller (MPMC) can be parameterized to selectively connect to different memory configurations. In particular, a programmable device that is combined with a DRAM in a die-stacked distributed memory in a single chip is provided with the programmable device forming the MPMC. The programmable device is parameterized to form a memory controller that can either aggregate or segment memory controller components to control different DRAM memory banks either together or separately. The aggregation or segmentation of the memory devices can be configured dynamically during operation of the programmable device.
摘要:
A method of circuit design involving an integrated circuit (IC) having an interposer can include identifying an active resource implemented within the IC within a region of the interposer exposed to an amount of stress that exceeds a normalized amount of stress on the interposer and selectively assigning an element of the circuit design to be implemented within the IC to the active resource according to a stress-aware analysis of the circuit design as implemented within the IC.
摘要:
In one embodiment, a method of forming a multi-die semiconductor device is provided. A plurality of dice is mounted on a semiconductor substrate, and neighboring ones of the dice are separated by a distance at which a first one of the neighboring dice will contact a meniscus of a flange of the neighboring die during underfill to form a capillary bridge between the neighboring dice. Solder bumps are reflowed to electrically connect contact terminals of the plurality of dice to contact terminals on a top surface of the substrate. Underfill is deposited along one or more edges of one or more of the plurality of dice. As a result of the capillary bridge formed between neighboring dice, flow of underfill is induced between the bottom surfaces of the neighboring dice and the top surface of the substrate. The dispensed underfill is cured.