RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC FOR A COMPUTER

摘要

A system (20) is disclosed including reconfigurable logic circuit (40) having programmable logic (50), interface memory (60), and logic design memory (80). Memory (80) stores a number of logic designs each operable to configure programmable logic (50). Also included is computer (22) coupled to reconfigurable logic circuit (40) that concurrently executes one or more application programs and an interface program. The application programs generate a number of requests to utilize reconfigurable logic circuit (40) and the interface program responds to the requests by opening a number of coexisting program interfaces. Reconfigurable logic circuit (40) is responsive to the interface program to provide a number of interface buffers in memory (60) that each belong to a corresponding one of the interfaces and are each operable to store data passing between computer (22) and reconfigurable logic circuit (40).