Patent ID: 7386741

Claim:
A logic circuit apparatus, comprising: a plurality of programmable logic circuits, each configured to have a changeable circuit component based on circuit data; a circuit data memory to store a plurality of circuit data and performance requirements, the circuit data representing a unit circuit of processing, the performance requirements representing a processing performance for the unit circuit; a supply unit configured to supply a voltage to the plurality of programmable logic circuits; a feature data memory to store feature data of each programmable logic circuit, the feature data representing an operation range of a voltage; and a control unit configured to calculate a minimum voltage of the plurality of programmable logic circuits to execute the plurality of circuit data based on the performance requirements, to selectively assign the plurality of circuit data to the plurality of programmable logic circuits so that the performance requirement of the circuit data assigned to each programmable logic circuit is within the operation range of the programmable logic circuit at the minimum voltage, and to control said supply unit to supply the minimum voltage to the plurality of programmable logic circuits.