Patent ID: 6047375
Filing Date: 2000-04-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computer system, comprising;a plurality of processors having a common footprint bonded to a common substrate with interconnection wiring on said common substrate coupling said processors;said wiring including fencing wires for fencing interfaces to arid from said processors to assign particular processors to a particular function on said common substrate;each of said processors having a common footprint on said common substrate so as to allow any of said processors to be located physically at any location for a processor on said common substrate;said particular functions including functioning as a processing unit or as a cryptographic element, said fencing wires preventing use of a cryptographic interface from a cryptographic element to a processing unit when the location to which said cryptographic interface can be coupled is used by a processing unit but enabling use of said cryptographic interface from a cryptographic element when said location is used by a cryptographic element.