Patent ID: 6021186
Filing Date: 2000-02-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A facsimile apparatus comprising:circuitry for sensing and demodulating a facsimile signal on a telephone line; anda dynamically reconfigurable processor, coupled to the sensing and demodulating circuitry, for receiving and selectively modifying the facsimile signal, the dynamically reconfigurable processor comprising:a reconfigurable logic unit; anda memory, coupled to the reconfigurable logic unit, storing:a plurality of configuration sets, each configuration set specifying a configuration of the reconfigurable logic unit, each configuration defining an instruction set architecture of the dynamically reconfigurable processor; anda plurality of instructions to be executed by the reconfigurable logic unit in response to a timing signal, at least one instruction comprising a reconfiguration instruction for reconfiguring the reconfigurable logic unit with one of the configuration sets, at least one reconfiguration instruction executed in response to sensing the facsimile signal on the telephone line.