INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCORPORATING AN ARRAY OF INTERCONNECTED PROCESSORS EXECUTING A CYCLE-BASED PROGRAM

摘要

An integrated circuit (4) is provided including an array (10) of processors (26) with interface circuitry (12) providing communication with further processing circuitry (14). The processors (26) within the array (10) execute individual programs which together provide the functionality of a cycle-based program. During each program-cycle of the cycle based program, each of the processors executes its respective program starting from a predetermined execution start point to evaluate a next state of at least some of the state variables of the cycle-based program. A boundary between program-cycles provides a synchronisation time (point) for processing operations performed by the array.