Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, methods, and integrated circuits having a calibration structure with a calibration component and a measurement structure coupled to the calibration component. The measurement structure is configured to vary a current through the calibration component until a voltage of the calibration component equals an operation voltage. The variable current is a function of at least the operation voltage and a resistance of a resistor external to the measurement structure.

Abstract: Embodiments of crossbar devices constructed with Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) switches are disclosed herein. A crossbar device may comprise m input terminals, n output terminals, n control lines and m×n MEMS switches coupled to the n control lines to selectively couple the m input terminals to the n output terminal. Each of the MEMS switches may comprise a contact node coupled to one of the m input terminals, a cantilever coupled to one of the n output terminals, a control node coupled to one of the n control lines to electrostatically control the cantilever to contact the contact node or be away from the contact node using electrostatic attractive or repulsive force respectively. The cantilever and the contact node are configured to remain in contact by molecular adhesion force, after the cantilever has been electrostatically controlled to contact the contact node, and the electrostatic attractive force has been removed. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: A reconfigurable circuit having communication resources configured to facilitate selective packet-oriented communications among reconfigurable resources is described herein.

Abstract: A reconfigurable circuit having redundant reconfigurable clusters is described herein.

Abstract: A reconfigurable circuit having redundant reconfigurable clusters is described herein.

Abstract: Reconfigurable circuits with configuration data loaders are described herein. The configuration data loaders are adapted to enable on circuit finalization of configuration data provided in symbolic form, not fully resolved.

Abstract: A configurable circuit that includes configuration data protection features, and related methods, are described herein.

Abstract: A crossbar device includes a first set of input lines and a second set of output lines. A plurality of chains of pass transistors are provided to selectively couple the input lines to the output lines in a reduced parasitic capacitive loading manner. Further, memory elements and decoder logic are provided to facilitate control of the selective coupling. Additionally, a low power application of multiple crossbar devices to a reconfigurable circuit block is improved by having each memory element of a crossbar device be provided with a supply voltage higher by a Vth to maintain the input voltage of corresponding output buffers at Vdd. Further, an application of multiple crossbar devices to a reconfigurable circuit block is improved by coupling a control circuitry via a control line to all output buffers of the interconnected crossbar devices to force the output buffers to a known state at power-on.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a number of function blocks (FB), of which at least one is re-configurable. Each of the FBs may be a reconfigurable function or a non-reconfigurable function or recursively expanded with additional “nested” function blocks. The IC further includes a number of input pins, a number of output pins, and a number of crossbar devices. The elements, at least at the IC level, are coupled in a manner such that all input signals are provided to the FBs through a first subset of the crossbar devices, all internal signals are routed from one FB to another FB through a second subset of crossbar devices, and all output signals are routed from the FBs to the output pins through a third subset of crossbar devices. To increase routability and speed each of the crossbar device output has a single fanout. Additionally, each of the crossbar devices may provide only one input to each other crossbar device.