Patent Document ID: 20030105949
Application ID: 09997987
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for configuring and operating an adaptive circuit, the system comprising: a first executable information module, the module having first configuration information and second configuration information, the module further having first operand data and second operand data; a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements including a first computational element and a second computational element, the first computational element having a first fixed architecture and the second computational element having a second fixed architecture, the first fixed architecture being different than the second fixed architecture; and an interconnection network coupled to the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, the interconnection network operative to configure and provide the first operand data to the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a first functional mode of a plurality of functional modes, in response to the first configuration information, and the interconnection network further operative to reconfigure and provide the second operand data to the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a second functional mode of the plurality of functional modes, in response to the second configuration information, the first functional mode being different than the second functional mode.