Hardware engine with configurable instructions

• Main Authors: El-Shabani, Mohammad, Amirineni, Sundeep, Sonar, Sagar, Patton, Kenneth Wayne, Diamant, Ron
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.11.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

In one example, an integrated circuit comprises: a memory configured to store a first mapping between a first opcode and first control information and a second mapping between the first opcode and second control information; a processing engine configured to perform processing operations based on the control information; and a controller configured to: at a first time, provide the first opcode to the memory to, based on the first mapping stored in the memory, fetch the first control information for the processing engine, to enable the processing engine to perform a first processing operation based on the first control information; and at a second time, provide the first opcode to the memory to, based on the second mapping stored in the memory, fetch the second control information for the processing engine, to enable the processing engine to perform a second processing operation based on the second control information.