Patent ID: 8042072

Claim:
A method for implementing multiple frequency operations in a semiconductor platform, the method comprising steps of: selecting an application set, the application set having a plurality of physical resources comprising embedded functions and a configurable transistor fabric, a plurality of logical resources corresponding to the physical resources of the semiconductor platform; reading a customer's requirements comprising desired performance of a semiconductor product; determining that the selected application set does not meet the desired performance of the customer's requirements; calculating a plurality of parameters to meet the desired performance of the customer's requirements; modifying a configurable power mesh as a function of the desired performance of the customer's requirements, the configurable power mesh comprising at least first and second configurable grids, the first configurable grid being operable at a different frequency than the second configurable grid; modifying the configurable transistor fabric to meet the desired performance of the customer's requirements; programming a first portion of the transistor fabric to instantiate a first function having higher frequency operations than a second portion of the transistor fabric; and modifying the configurable power mesh in the vicinity of the first portion to support the first function having higher frequency operations; wherein each of the steps of the method is implemented by at least one processor.