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A programmable integrated circuit utilizes a large number of intermediate-grain processing elements which are multibit processing units arranged in a configurable mesh. The coarse-grain resources, such as memory and processing, are deployable in a way that takes advantage of the opportunities for op

A programmable integrated circuit utilizes a large number of intermediate-grain processing elements which are multibit processing units arranged in a configurable mesh. The coarse-grain resources, such as memory and processing, are deployable in a way that takes advantage of the opportunities for optimization present in given problems. To accomplish this, the interconnect supports three different modes of operation: a static value in which a value set by the configuration data is provided to a functional unit, static source in which another functional unit serves as the value source, and a dynamic source mode in which the source is determined by the value from another functional unit.

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1. A programmable integrated circuit comprising:logic units which perform operations on data in response to instructions of a defined set of instructions; memories which store and retrieve data in response to received addresses; a configurable interconnect which provides signal transmission between

1. A programmable integrated circuit comprising:logic units which perform operations on data in response to instructions of a defined set of instructions; memories which store and retrieve data in response to received addresses; a configurable interconnect which provides signal transmission between the logic units and memories, the interconnect being configurable from configuration control data to define data paths, originating at logic units and/or memories, through the interconnect as address inputs to memories, data inputs to memories and logic units, and instruction inputs to logic units; and programmable configuration storage for storing the configuration control data.